USCGC Tupelo (WLB-303)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Tupelo WAGL/WLB-303, a Cactus (A) Class buoy tender was built by Zenith Dredge of Duluth, Minnesota. Her keel was laid 15 August 1942, launched 28 November 1942 and commissioned on 30 August 1943. During World War II, TUPELO served in the Pacific establishing and maintaining over 50 massive moorings for U.S. Navy ship with 15 ton anchors and 2-1/2 inch chain. She was also used to set buoys around mine fields and to transport tons of dynamite to U.S. forces throughout the Pacific Islands. Following the war, on 1 July 1946 TUPELO was reassigned…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Tupelo WAGL/WLB-303, a Cactus (A) Class buoy tender was built by Zenith Dredge of Duluth, Minnesota. Her keel was laid 15 August 1942, launched 28 November 1942 and commissioned on 30 August 1943. During World War II, TUPELO served in the Pacific establishing and maintaining over 50 massive moorings for U.S. Navy ship with 15 ton anchors and 2-1/2 inch chain. She was also used to set buoys around mine fields and to transport tons of dynamite to U.S. forces throughout the Pacific Islands. Following the war, on 1 July 1946 TUPELO was reassigned to Toledo, Ohio for maintaining navigational aids, search and rescue operations and ice breaking on Lake Erie. On 9 11 January 1951 escorted tug Sherman H. Serre from Erie, Pennsylvania to Cleveland Ohio, on 20 October 1951 assisted motor vessel George F. Rand off of Port Huron, Michigan, on 13 14 December 1951 searched for but did not find a missing Cessna aircraft in western Lake Erie, and on 11 September 1952 assisted grounded motor vessels Kulas and Fink in the Livingstone Channel.