Here is a good site with quite a bit of info to start. There is also a fellow with the screen name "Squiter" that is around here, and I believe he is the guy that has a great 180' site . http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/cutterindex.asp
Evergreen was originally built as an "A" Class tender but did oceanographic work for much of its existance. As such, it was eventially neutered of its buoy boom, painted white and after a bad fire in the late 1960s, had its superstructure rebuilt. When the Evergreen wasn't on Interneational Ice Patrol off of Newfoundland & Greenland, it was conducting oceanography in the Bermuda Triangle testing survival equipment for Coast Guard certification and studying the Gulf Stream current.
Since Evergreen had a reinforced hull, it was periodically called to break ice in the Hudson River upstream from Manhattan and other ports in the U.S. Northeast.
After the Coast Guard got out of the Oceanography business in the 1980s, Evergreen was converted from a WAGO (Oceanographic Research Vessel) to a WMEC for the Marine Law Enforcement community.
In the early 90s, she was decommissioned and sunk somewhere in the Atlantic as naval target practice.
THANKS MASTERS MATE AND MARCUS LEFTCOASTUS. THANKS FOR THE WEB SITES. I SERVED ON THE "WHITE HULL" CLOVER FROM HER CHARLIE STATUS IN THE YARDS JUST AFTER THE BOOM CAME OFF AND THE HULL WAS PAINTED WHITE. SHE WAS STILL IN THE DRY DOCK IN OAKLAND, CA. WHEN WE DID GET BACK TO HOME PORT (EUREKA, CA) THEY SENT 3 OF US TO DO A PATROL ON THE CITRUS. WE DID A LOT OF BOARDINGS ON THE RUSSIANS (SOVIETS THEN), BULGARIANS, POLES AND DOMESTICS WHEN WE RAN OUT OF THE OTHER THREE BEFORE OUR PATROL TIME RAN OUT.
Originally posted by XMK3SNIPE: ANYBODY OUT THERE WITH AGOOD KNOWLEDGE OF THE OLD "A" CLASS 180'S? THIS WOULD INCLUDE BOTH BLACK AND WHITE HULLED 180'S.
Check this out XMK3 USCG'S 180-foot Seagoing Buoy Tender I will have my website cg180s.org up in the spring of 2008. Have had numerous problems such as my home being broken into and having my computer and all my back-up disks stolen and had to start from scratch all over again.
That is an awesome link for the 180's. I was part of the decom crew for the Sassafras (WLB-401) when we transferred her to the Nigerian Navy. Lots of good times & memories out in the warm south pacific.
I stand corrected. The last time I was there, both Mallow and Basswood were moored up there, along with a couple of old Navy fleet tugs - like the Tamaroa/Ute/Lipan. This was going on 6 years ago now.
Originally posted by tip_dog: I stand corrected. The last time I was there, both Mallow and Basswood were moored up there, along with a couple of old Navy fleet tugs - like the Tamaroa/Ute/Lipan. This was going on 6 years ago now.
Tip ... wasn't the other one up there the IRIS (395)? The only two 180's I haven't been able to get a firm location on are the IRIS and the LAUREL (291). Lost track of both of them last year. Last I heard LAUREL was somewhere in Florida. If anybody knows where these two cutters are please let me know ... Thanks
There is a Youtube video out there that has a guy going through the Basswood. It sure looks like the same place of the pic above. I am going to try and contact the person in the craigslist add to confirm the boat in the pic.
Tip, I just checked the mothball fleet on Google Earth and it does look like there could be a couple of 180's up there. Here's the photo without getting too badly distorted.
Tipp, thanks so much for that link on the Tupelo and Balsam. I have looked and looked to try and find something on them. Even emailed the company and asked for pics.
