Another obscure ship

[spence]

Just another obscure ship that served in the Pacific. Anybody got a name?

[ctangus]

The Coast Guard Cutter Haida, WPG-45.

[Dixie]

You probably should've renamed the picture...
 
[:D][:D][:D][:'(]

[spence]

Very well done!

Now another

[ctangus]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

You probably should've renamed the picture...

[:D][:D][:D][:'(]

Bah - you discovered my secret. I was trying to impress everyone with my esoteric nautical knowledge... [;)][:'(]

Cool pics, Spence. [:)]

[DuckofTindalos]

USS Owasco...

[Ursa MAior]

Dont tell me!

Did you also download he picture?[;)][:D]

[spence]

It was never the USS OWASCO. It was always the USCGC OWASCO. Beaucoup guns for a CG Cutter (4 x 5"/38, 8 x 40mm, 8 20mm, 4 Y-guns, 2 DC racks). The class never quite made it into the War coming on line in the latter half of 1945. Shortly after the war most of the armament was removed.

[ctangus]

Here's a nice, higher-res, photo of her:

[ctangus]

Slightly off-topic, since she didn't see service in the Pacific, but here's another Coast Guard Cutter that saw service in WWII. Can anyone name her?



Edit: extra-special bonus points if you can name where the photo was taken.

[spence]

165 ft class...CGC Escanaba, Tahoma, Algonquin, or Comanche maybe. Not the Onondaga cause that one did serve in the Pacific in WWII (pictured below)

[ctangus]

I'm impressed. Yep - USCGC Escanaba.

[rtrapasso]

ok - now where was it taken?

The pic looks overexposed - but is that snow on the hills and dock? i'll hazard a guess that this is the Aleutians.

EDIT: Whoops - you said NOT in the Pacific (D'OH!) Let's change the guess to Newfoundland (and if pressed further - let's say St. John's)

[ctangus]

Aleutians - no.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: ctangus

Aleutians - no.

Whoops - see correction above - let's try Newfoundland...

[ctangus]

Nope - not Newfoundland, though that's a little bit closer.

I have to say that the location of the pic is quite obscure, and frankly doesn't have much to do with WWII. I mentioned it only due to personal interest - I have family from the area & lost a 2nd cousin-thriced removed (or something like that) on the Escanaba.

[spence]

Maine coast then...Bar Harbor perhaps...picture is taken before WWII cause Escanaba got mined or torpedoed.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: ctangus

Nope - not Newfoundland, though that's a little bit closer.

I have to say that the location of the pic is quite obscure, and frankly doesn't have much to do with WWII. I mentioned it only due to personal interest - I have family from the area & lost a 2nd cousin-thriced removed (or something like that) on the Escanaba.

Michigan?

[Johnny Sheff]

Iceland? Greenland?

[ctangus]

Extra special bonus points for Robert!

That's Escanaba at her home - the great war-time port of Grand Haven, Michigan. She was lost in the Atlantic '43 with only two survivors and it was fairly devastating to the town - annual memorial services are still held for her there.

Spence's pics reminded me of her.