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USCGC Blackhaw.jpg USCGC Blackhaw underway. | |
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| Name: | USCGC Blackhaw (WLB-390) |
| Builder: | Marine and Iron Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 16 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 18 June 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 17 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 February 1993 |
| Fate: | Sold on 24 November 2000, eventually scrapped |
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| Class & type: | Iris-class buoy tender |
| Displacement: | 935 long tons (950 t) |
| Length: | 180 ft (55 m) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 1 in (14.35 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators driven by 2 Cooper Bessemer-type GND-8, 4-cycle diesels; single screw |
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8.3 kn (15.4 km/h; 9.6 mph) cruising 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) maximum |
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The USCGC Blackhaw (WLB-390) was a Iris-class buoy tender belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 18 June 1943 and commissioned on 17 February 1944.[1]
Career[]
| International radio call sign of USCGC Blackhaw (WLB-390)[1] | |||
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| November | Oscar | Delta | India |
Immediately after her commissioning, the Blackhaw was assigned to perform general ATON and icebreaking duties in the Great Lakes. Afterward she was assigned to the 6th Coast Guard District and homeported in Charleston, South Carolina.[1]
In popular culture[]
During the spring of 1989 the ship and her crew were used during the filming of The Hunt for Red October to depict a Soviet icebreaker and its crew.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "USCG Blackhaw". US Coast Guard. http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Blackhaw1943.pdf. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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