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was transferred to U.S. Navy control on 1 November 1941 by
Executive Order 8929 which transferred the entire Coast Guard from the United States Department of the Treasury to the United States Navy. Raritan continued to be homeported at Boston under U.S. Navy control but was manned by Coast Guard
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Cryolite is a mineral that was used in the production of aluminum prior to World War II. Aluminum was used extensively in wartime aircraft production. Control of the cryolite mines gave the United States one of the few sources in the world for cryolite and denied
Germany the mine
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and because it operated the only ships that were equipped to handle ice conditions in
Greenland waters, the State Department requested Coast Guard assistance in enforcing claims of sovereignty and to prevent Germany from taking control of the
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was capable of breaking ice up to 3 ft (0.91 m) thick. After commissioning on 11 April 1939, she was assigned harbor duties at
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After the Coast Guard was returned to the
Treasury Department on 1 January 1946 in accordance with Executive Order 9666,
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Denmark on 9 April 1940 and then laid claim to Denmark's crown colony, Greenland. The
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on 23 March 1939, the first dual launching to ever take place in Bay City. She was one of four
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continued to operate in Boston Harbor. She was subsequently transferred to
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and establishing weather stations on the
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1 × Westinghouse electric motor with 2 x
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was decommissioned from Coast Guard service on 14 May 1988.
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309,000 and was launched alongside her sister cutter
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322:-type 110 foot tug design.
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252:1 x 20mm/80 gun (1945)
454:Grand Haven, Michigan
349:U.S. State Department
548:Scheina (1982), p 74
357:government-in-exile
803:Arundel-class tugs
302:Bay City, Michigan
234:processing systems
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450:Great Lakes
425:personnel.
365:sovereignty
279:Great Lakes
239:SO-8 (1945)
125:14 May 1988
21:USS Raritan
783:1939 ships
772:Categories
442:Portsmouth
217:Complement
201:Propulsion
733:Hollyhock
710:Naugatuck
492:Citations
471:Footnotes
399:Northland
376:mines at
361:Eske Brun
311:Naugatuck
146:110 foot
742:Sycamore
703:Mahoning
446:Virginia
411:Campbell
405:Comanche
378:Ivittuut
374:cryolite
249:Armament
133:Scrapped
106:Launched
65:Namesake
717:Raritan
696:Arundel
682:Arundel
460:Raritan
438:Raritan
422:Raritan
382:Raritan
338:History
324:Raritan
320:Calumet
316:Arundel
294:Raritan
261:Raritan
101:309,000
81:Builder
59:Raritan
35:History
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328:Boston
265:was a
259:USCGC
162:Length
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583:5 May
466:Notes
393:Modoc
387:Duane
209:Speed
178:Draft
73:Owner
636:ISBN
617:ISBN
598:ISBN
585:2022
408:and
306:US$
170:Beam
143:Type
130:Fate
99:US$
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54:Name
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