Specifications: Displacement 1,300 t.; Length 188' 2"; Beam 37'; Draft 12' 6"; Speed 12.5 kts.; Complement 69; Armament one single 40mm gun mount, four 20mm mounts; Propulsion two Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, no reduction gear, two shafts.
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23k | U.S. Navy photo from the Naval Institute Archives. | Joe Radigan | |
| USCGC Magnolia (WAGL 328) |
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178k | 12 April 1963 U.S. Coast Guard photo. |
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| F/V Galaxy |
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78k | The burned wreckage of the 180-foot Seattle-based fishing boat Galaxy floats in the Bering Sea near St. Paul Island, Alaska, about 700 miles west of Anchorage. | Associated Press Photo | |
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65k | An unidentified vessel assisting the burning Galaxy. | US Coast Guard Photo | |
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15k | Last known location of the Galaxy. | Seattle Times | |
Magnolia
Any of various deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs of the genus Magnolia of the Western Hemisphere and Asia, many of which are cultivated for their showy white, pink, purple, or yellow flowers.
The Magnolia was originally a Chimo-class mine layer built for the U.S. Army Coastal Artillery Corps in 1942 by the Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia. She was christened the Colonel John Storey. She transferred to the Navy and was commissioned as the USS Barricade on 7 April 1944. She was acquired by the Coast Guard and converted for use as a buoy tender at the Bethlehem Shipyard in San Francisco, California. She was commissioned CGC Magnolia on 19 October 1947.
She was first assigned to San Francisco and tended aids to navigation along the California coast with occasional search and rescue duties as required. From 28 to 29 April 1951 she assisted the Japanese M/V Flyer. On 9 February 1960 she assisted the disabled M/V Angelo Petri two miles south of the San Francisco Bar. On 5 June 1963 she assisted following the collision between the USNS Asterion [T-AF 63]and the Japanese M/V Kokoku Maru and transported 19 crew members from the Japanese ship to San Francisco. From 21 to 24 June 1965 she escorted the damaged catamaran Judy Al, 165 miles southwest of Eureka, California to that port as her hull was too damaged to permit towing.
She transferred to Astoria, Oregon on 1 September 1965. On 6 December 1967 she escorted the distressed M/V David E. Day, which had grounded on the Columbia River Bar. On 10 August 1968 she assisted following the collision between Seatrain Washington and Rose S, 17 miles east of Cape Flattery in fog.
She was decommissioned on 13 August 1971.
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