I spent some time on a 46' Bouy Tender... No photos, but would love to have some. I just found a 32' boat that seems a bit like a landing craft but has the racing stripe. Any ideas about what that is?

We had a "ramp" boat when I was on the Blackhaw and working aids in Vietnam. It was probably about that size. I forget what the Navy designation was for it.

You mean this 1?

Sandy Hook had a ramp boat. Either that or it was from Group New York. I think it was a WWII LSVP. Either way, it was black with the CG stripe on the hull. ESMT Manasquan would use it as a repair platform for the HV underwater cables running to the offshore aids. I spent quite a few hours on it making the splices on 203 cable.

When the rain stops here, I'll grab a pic. It does have a WWII flavor, but is white. The blow ramp goes to the waterline.

tip - I like the little boat... I don't recognize that one either. I've been to the CG website and am surprised there is not a collection of small boat photos. My favorite: the 17 with twin 135s

Tip,

Nope, this was more like an LCVP. I'll see if I can find a pic somewhere.

The pic you posted looks very simialr to the standard small boats the WHEC's had when I was in, although I don't recall the stern being so squared off.

Well, it is based on the 26' MSB design, but is a buoy boat, that used to be carried by the 180's, and I don't believe any of this type of boat are still in service on the new 175' or 225' tenders.

I can't find a pic of the D9 cable boat, but I do know it's a converted Navy LCM, like the pic below, but with a larger deckhouse:

The LCM is larger than the LCVP.

Here's an LCVP:

I believe the older WAGB's carried 1 of these as part of their boat outfit. I don't know if the current WAGB's are still carrying them.

The CG is now running some Munsons that look like landing craft. I believe they've kept them in bare aluminum with racing stripe decals.
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IT WAS A MOTOR CARGO BOAT SQUARE STERN AND A BLUNT BOW MOST 180'S HAD 2 OF THEM AND THEN HAD 1 REMOVED AND A RHIB ADDED.

There was a 45' buoy boat from the early 1960 that resembled a landing craft. It had a pilothouse aft, well deck forward and an "A" frame gantry rig at the bow for working aton.


from cgret1977s great site of old photos coastguardpics dot comm

There are a couple of them occasionally listed in " Boats & Harbors" for sale.

The old WALNUT had a 24' or so wooden "ramp" workboat. I believe they were up dated in the mid 60's to a fiberglass version.

The first district had a LCM (smaller model) up at Portsmouth Harbor that was used by the TTs to maintain power and telephone lines up and down the coast to different LTSTAs etc.

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your not talkking about the dukws are you? I know Sandy Hook had one.

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There was a 45' buoy boat from the early 1960 that resembled a landing craft. It had a pilothouse aft, well deck forward and an "A" frame gantry rig at the bow for working aton.

Best job I ever had. Ran Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands from Olympia to the Canadian border. Underway Monday to Friday 3 out of 4 weeks. Only thing that would have made the job better would have been to have a shower on board. Using a marina’s garden hose in the well deck during the winter made for breath-taking showers!

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Using a marina’s garden hose in the well deck during the winter made for breath-taking showers!

Hmmmm. That might explain why the good Sisters of Perpetual Confusion, or what ever order they are, that tend the ferry terminal on Shaw Island in the San Juans always seem to be giggling when one of the local Cutters cruises by.

Ah yes, Shaw Island. Forty-six years and the legend lives on. . .

Going back to the subject at hand. I believe the LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) we carried on NORTHWIND was 36’. The ramp boat mentioned previously and carried on tenders was an approximately 24’ cargo boat and did indeed have a small ramp at the bow that could be lowered on the beach to facilitate unloading a wheelbarrow or cement mixer. The only picture I could find was the one we carried on ASTER.

that is a cool looking boat! where was that homeported?

ASTER was homeported in Seattle, Washington. She tied up at the old CG Base on the freshwater side of the Ballard locks.

Dan,
You may or may not be surprise to know that there is still a very sizable fleet of those NW power scows still running up and down the inside passage today.

Many are still working boats, fish tending etc. Have seen a couple that have been "dressed up" and are used a mobile base camp lodges for kayakers and slamon sport fishing.

The builders and owners are getting their moneys worth out of them for sure.

That does surprise me since they are constructed of wood and most of them were built well over half a century ago. If I remember correctly they were primarily two lengths, 85’ and 105’. The Coast Guard had two of the larger ones, ASTER in the 13th and THISTLE in the 17th.

Aster and Thistle were former U.S. Army BSP's - Barge, Self Propelled. Most of the BSP's were built during WWII.

The boat that refering to at Sandy Hook was 56' LCM I spent 2 1/2 years on it as enginer 76-78 It under ESMT Mansquan tie up Point Pleasent,NJ
The ramp was weld up It work underwater cable for 3rd CG Dist Conn.,NJ,Delware,and Penn