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USCGC White Pine (WLM-547)
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 USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547) (1948 - 1960)
 USS YF-448 (1944 - 1946)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Oscar - Delta - Echo
 NODE
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
White Lupine was sold to the Dominican Republic
YF-257 Class Self-propelled Covered Lighter:
  • Laid down, 4 June 1943, under contract under no. NXs156 at Erie Concrete & Steel Supply Co., Erie, PA.
  • Launched, 28 August 1943
  • Placed in service as YF-448, 20 May 1944 and delivered to Brooklyn Navy Yard, N.Y.
  • Commissioned USS ,i.YF-448, 11 July 1944 and assigned to the Fifth Naval District
  • Placed out of service in 1946
  • Acquired by the US Coast Guard in 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Commissioned, as the Coastal Buoy Tender USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547), 3 August 1948
  • Redesignated (WLM-547), mid-1960s
  • Decommissioned, 29 June 29, 1999, and sold to the Dominican Republic
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 600 t.
    Length 132' 10"
    Beam 30'
    Draft 8' 9" max.
    Speed 10.5 kts.
    Range 2,830 mile range at 7.5 kts. (1948)
    Armament none
    ComplementUSCG - 1 Warrant Officer, 20 Enlisted (1948)
    Propulsion
    As Built - diesel, twin screws
    1974 - Diesel electric; 2 x direct-reversible 06 Union diesels; 600 BHP; twin propellers; 3 rudders (as launched); 2 x Caterpillar D-353-E diesel engines
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    YF-448
    YF-448 38k YF-448 launching, 28 August 1943, at Erie Concrete & Steel Supply Co., Erie, PA.
    Photo from Bowling Green University, Historical Collection of the Great Lakes.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    USCGC White Heath (WAGL-547)
    YF-448 21k USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547) underway off the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, MD., 9 August 1948, six days after being commissioned into the US Coast Guard.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
    YF-448 38k USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547) moored at Memphis, TN., with a barge attached in July 1961.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
    There is no DANFS history for USS YF-448 available at NavSource
    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 - White Pine, 1947 WAGL / WLM-547; YF-448
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