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USCGC Winnebago
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USCG Winnebago (WHEC-40) was an Owasco-class high endurance cutter which served with the United States Coast Guard from 1945 to 1973. Originally intended for World War II service, she was commissioned only weeks before the end of the war and consequently did not see combat until her deployment in the Vietnam War more than 20 years later.
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Name | USCGC Winnebago |
Namesake | Lake Winnebago |
Owner | U.S. Coast Guard |
Builder | Western Pipe & Steel (WPS), Los Angeles, California |
Yard number | 146 |
Launched | 2 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 21 June 1945 |
Decommissioned | 27 February 1973 |
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Nickname(s) | "Winnnie", "Winnie Hoo Hoo", "4.O Winnie", "Wind Bag" |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 7 October 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Owasco-class cutter |
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Length | |
Beam | 43 ft 1 in (13.1 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 3 in (5.3 m) (1966) |
Installed power | 4,000 shp (3,000 kW) (1945) |
Propulsion | 1 × Westinghouse electric motor driven by a turbine, (1945) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph). |
Range |
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Complement | 10 officers, 3 warrants, 130 enlisted (1966) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Notes | Fuel capacity: 141,755 gal (Oil, 95%). |
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Winnebago was built by Western Pipe & Steel (WPS) at the company's San Pedro shipyard. Named after Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, she was commissioned as a patrol gunboat with ID number WPG-40 on 21 June 1945. In the postwar period, her ID was changed to WHEC-40 (HEC for "High Endurance Cutter" - the "W" signifies a Coast Guard cutter).[1][2]