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USCGC Willow (WLB 332)
ex-USCGC Willow (WAGL 332)
ex-Picket (ACM 8)
ex-General Henry Knox
Picket served the US Army, Navy and Coast Guard
Chimo Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down in 1941 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as General Henry Knox by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Launched in 1942; Transferred to the Navy, 2 January 1945 and converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer at Charleston Navy Yard; Commissioned USS Picket (ACM 8), 6 March 1945; Decommissioned, 24 June 1946 and transferred to the Coast Guard the same day; Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946; Commissioned USCGC Willow (WAGL 332), 20 September 1947 at Charleston Naval Shipyard, SC; Reclassified WLB-332; Decommissioned 10 October 1969 and stored at the Coast Guard Training Support Center, Alameda, CA; Sold and renamed Royal Alaskan; Last seen in 1990 at Juneau, AK. Fate unknown.
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. (Reengined with diesel engines after becoming M/V Royal Alaskan).
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c. 1944
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View the Picket ACM 8)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
View the Willow (WLB 332)
Cutter History entry located on the Coast Guard History web site
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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