USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154)

For other ships with the same name, see USCGC Vigilant.

History

United States
Name:	USCGC Vigilant
Builder:	American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Launched:	25 April 1927
Commissioned:	3 May 1927
Decommissioned:	1966
Fate:	Sold in 1966
General characteristics
Class and type:	Active-class patrol boat
Displacement:	232 tons
Length:	125 feet
Beam:	23.5 feet
Draft:	7.5 feet
Propulsion:	2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp engines
Speed:	Maximum: 13 knots, 1945 Cruise: 8.0 knots
Range:	3,500 miles Max. Speed: 2,500 miles
Complement:	3 officers, 17 men (1960)
Armament:	1927: 1x 3"/27 1941: 1 x 3"/23, 2 x depth charge tracks 1945: 1 x 40mm/80 (single), 2 x 20mm/80 (single), 2 x depth charge tracks, 2 x mousetraps 1960: 1 x 40mm/60

USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154) was an Active-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard. She was 125-foot, steel-hulled, twin-screw, diesel-powered cutter primarily outfitted for Aids to Navigation work. She was involved in the rescue of survivors of several U-boat attacks off central Florida in the 1940s.

References

Active-class patrol boats

Active Agassiz Alert Antietam / Bedloe Bonham Boutwell Cahoone Cartigan Montegomery / Colfax Crawford Diligence Dix Ewing Faunce Frederick Lee General Greene Harriet Lane Jackson Kimball Legare Marion McLane Morris Nemaha Pulaski Reliance Rush Tiger Travis Vigilant Woodbury Yeaton Cuyahoga

Preceded by: Tampa class Followed by: Lake class

List of cutters of the United States Coast Guard

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