USCGC Acacia (WLB-406)
Coast Guard ship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USCGC Acacia.
44.259444°N 86.315000°W / 44.259444; -86.315000
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USCGC Acacia in 1944 | |
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United States | |
Builder | Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota |
Cost | $927,156 |
Laid down | 16 January 1944 |
Launched | 7 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 1 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 7 June 2006 |
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Motto | Ace Of The Lakes |
Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics as built in 1944 | |
Class and type | Iris |
Displacement | 935 tons |
Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 feet (3.7 m) |
Propulsion | 2 Cooper-Bessemer GND-8 Diesel engines |
Speed | 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) maximum |
Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 6 officers, 74 enlisted men |
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The USCGC Acacia (WAGL-406/WLB-406) is an Iris-class 180-foot seagoing buoy tender operated by the United States Coast Guard. Acacia was a multi-purpose vessel, nominally a buoy tender, but with equipment and capabilities for ice breaking, search and rescue, fire fighting, logistics, oil spill response, and other tasks as well. She spent almost all of her 62-year Coast Guard career on the Great Lakes. After decommissioning she became a museum ship in Manistee, Michigan.