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USCGC Muskeget (WAG-48)
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 USS Muskeget (AG-48) (1942)
 USS YAG-9 (1942)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
  • Built in 1923 as SS Cornish at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Acquired by the USS Navy, 29 December 1941
  • Converted for Navy service at Sullivan Drydock & Repair Co., New York, N.Y.
  • Commissioned USS YAG-9, 3 January 1942
  • Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, and named USS Muskeget (AG-48), 30 May 1942
  • Decommissioned, and transferred (loaned) to the Coast Guard, 30 June 1942
  • Commissioned USCGC Muskeget (WAG-48), 1 July 1942
  • Final Disposition, lost by enemy torpedo attack, (Torpedoed in North Atlantic by U-755, 9 September 1942)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 October 1943
    Specifications:
    Displacement 370 t.(lt) 1,827 t.(fl)
    Length 233' 6"
    Beam 20' 2"
    Draft 24' 3"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement
    9 officers
    107 enlisted
    1 Public Health Service Officer
    4 U.S. Weather Service employees
    Armament
    one single 4"/50 gun mount
    one single 3"/50 gun mount
    four single 20mm AA gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    four "Y" guns
    two mousetraps.
    Propulsion
    one Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company triple-expansion steam engine
    two; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation single-ended Scotch boilers, 190 psi
    single propeller 1,300 SHP
    US Coast Guard Historians Office.
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    Muskeget 16k USS YAG-9 underway, 17 February 1942, place unknown.
    US Navy photo, courtesy of D.M. McPherson
    View the Muskeget (AG-48)
    DANFS     history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - USS Muskeget; YAG-9; AG-48; WAG-48
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