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where she enforced customs laws, conducted search and rescue operations and destroyed derelict vessels. After the start of World War I she also enforced neutrality laws along the eastern seaboard. During a search and rescue attempt on 4 March 1917 assisting the steamer
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area until called for convoy duty to Europe. During convoy missions escorting merchant vessels she performed a rescue, saving four survivors of a torpedo attack. On escort duty
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cruised over 36,000 miles. Upon return to Coast Guard control after the war, she returned to routine patrol work at Savannah. In the spring of 1921 she served as part of the
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lost 10 of her crew. Several citations for heroism were awarded posthumously. After the United States declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917,
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on 11 December 1937 and sold for $ 10,300 on 13 April 1938 to Merritt-Chapman-Scott Corporation.
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Native American tribe that settled near Savannah, Georgia
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New York Shipbuilding
Camden, New Jersey
USD
tons
Triple expansion
steam engine
Semper Paratus
Francis Saltus Van Boskerck
United States Revenue Cutter Service
USRC Tahoma
New York Shipbuilding
Camden, New Jersey
Savannah, Georgia
Ocean City, Maryland
U.S. Navy
Coast Guard
Chesapeake Bay
Nantucket Shoals
International Ice Patrol
Prohibition
Curtis Bay, Maryland







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