USCGC Bramble
USCGC Bramble | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Bramble |
| Builder | Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota |
| Cost | $925,464 |
| Laid down | 2 August 1943 |
| Launched | 23 October 1943 |
| Commissioned | 22 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 22 May 2003 |
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| Fate | Scrapped 2023 |
| Notes | The USCG call sign of Bramble was NODK. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Class C or Iris-class seagoing buoy tenders |
| Displacement | 1,025 long tons (1,041 t) |
| Length | 180 ft (54.9 m) oa. |
| Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) mb. |
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| Propulsion | 2 × General Motors EMD 645 V8 diesel engines |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
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| Sensors & processing systems | Radar: SL-1 (1945). Sonar WEA (1945) |
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USCGC Bramble | |
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Location | 2336 Military St. Port Huron, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 42°57′36″N 82°25′32″W / 42.96000°N 82.42556°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 12000457 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 1 August 2012 |
| Removed from NRHP | December 2, 2024 |
USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) is one of the 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942 and 1944 for the United States Coast Guard. In commission from 1944 until 2003 she saw service in Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic waters as well as the Great Lakes. In 1947 Bramble was present at the Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll and in 1957 a circumnavigation of North America involved a forced traverse of the Northwest Passage. After decommissioning in 2003 Bramble became a museum ship in Port Huron, Michigan. In 2018 she was sold to a private owner, who is preparing MV Bramble to repeat her historic 1957 circumnavigation of North America.