USCGC Tallapoosa
USCGC Tallapoosa (WPG-52) in 1920. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Tallapoosa |
| Namesake | Tallapoosa River, Georgia |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Cost | $225,000 USD |
| Launched | 1 May 1915 |
| Commissioned | 12 August 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 8 November 1945 |
| Fate | Sold, 22 July 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 912 tons |
| Length | 165 ft 10 in |
| Beam | 32 ft |
| Draft | 11 ft 9 in |
| Propulsion | Triple-expansion steam, 17", 27", and 44" diameter x 30" stroke, 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 1,000 shaft horsepower |
| Speed | 12 knots |
| Complement | 9 officers, 63 enlisted |
| Armament | 4 × 6-pounders (1915); 2 × 6-pdrs; 2 × 3" 50-cal (single-mounts) (as of 1930); 2 × 3"/50 (single-mounts); 1 × 3"/23; 2 × depth charge tracks (as of 1941); 2 × 3"/50 (single-mounts); 2 × 20mm/80 (single-mounts); 2 × Mousetraps; 4 × K-guns; 2 × depth charge tracks (as of 1945). |
USCGC Tallapoosa (WPG-52) was a United States Coast Guard cutter of the Tallapoosa-class and was designed to replace the revenue cutter Winona. Her hull was reinforced for light icebreaking. She was initially stationed at Mobile, Alabama, with cruising grounds to Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, and Fowey Rocks, Florida. During World War I she escorted convoys out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the war she served with the Bering Sea Patrol before returning to Savannah, Georgia, before World War II. During the war Tallapoosa assisted with convoy escort duty and anti-submarine patrols.