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USCGC McCulloch (CG 3)
USRC McCulloch

Call sign (1912):
Rush - Cast - Have

Sunk 13 June 1917

Revenue Cutter:

Built by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA

Commissioned USRC McCulloch 12 December 1897

Designated CG-3 in 1915

Acquired by the Navy 6 April 1917

Sunk 13 June 1917 after colliding with the SS Governor, 3 miles northwest of Point Conception, CA.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,432 t.

Length 219'

Beam 32' 6"

Draft 16'

Speed 17 kts.

Complement 130

Armament: Four 3" mounts and one torpedo tube

Propulsion: Two 200psi boilers, one triple expansion 21½", 34½" and 56½" diameter x 30" stroke steam engine, one shaft.

Size	Image Description	Source
60k	Onward to a new century. . .the elegant lines of a turn of the century cutter made a fitting nautical subject for this painter. Here McCulloch, with her while hull and buff superstructure and stack, makes way under steam and full sail. In the first years of the twentieth century the masts and sails (with a few exceptions), coal-fired boilers, and iron hulls gave way to steel, oil and diesel fuels, and turbine propulsion, closely emulating the maritime technological advancement of the U.S. Navy. Nevertheless, the cutters remained distinctive vessels, easily recognizable from their Navy counterparts due to their "form following function" designs as well as the colors adorning their hulls Painting from the Coast Guard Academy Museum Art Collection	Coast Guard Cutter Website
75k	Photo taken before she was reconditioned and after her main mast was removed	Coast Guard Cutter Website
49k	.	Tommy Trampp
119k	Library of Congress photo LC-D4-2061 from the Detroit Photographic Co.	Mike Green
122k	Photos from the Naval History website	Robert Hurst
120k	Photos from the Naval History website	Robert Hurst
166k	c. July 1888 Starboard broadside view in the Mare Island channel U.S. Navy photo 1899-1	Darryl Baker
180k	c. July 1888 Amidships view at Mare Island U.S. Navy photo 1899-2
190k	c. July 1888 Port broadside view in the Mare Island channel U.S. Navy photo 1899-3
270k	Memorial of McCulloch battle in Manila Bay, 1 May 1898 U.S. Navy photo
391k	Crew photo of USRC McCulloch. I feel fairly certain this was taken soon after the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, and the mustachioed officer seated in the center is her captain, Captain Daniel B. Hogsdon, USRCS. Note how small the crew is, and the number of Asian sailors	David Wright
155k	c. 1900 Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California Naval Historical Center photos NH 46473 and NH 46474	Robert Hurst
122k		Robert Hurst
385k	c. 1900 Off Mare Island Navy Yard	Darryl Baker Photo added 18 March 2022
131k	Photo from The Downfall of Spain, Naval History of the Spanish American War by H. W. Wilson 1900	Tommy Trampp
778k	7 March 1914 The submarine F-2 (SS 21) (left) and F-1 (SS 20) (right) and the USRC McCulloch are seen in Mare Island Navy Yard Dry Dock No. 1 U.S. Navy photo MINSY 1486-3-1914	Darryl Baker
91k	Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships	Robert Hurst
317k	“Neptune Claims a Good Ship”; newsprint image, U.S. Coast Guard magazine 13, No. 11 (September, 1940), p. 6 Photo from the Naval History website	Robert Hurst