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OSSIPPEE cutters (1915)


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Ossipee 1927

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG26, 1942- WPG50 Ossipee   Newport News 1915 1.5.1915 7.1915 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, to USN as gunboat 11.1941, sold 9.1946
CG27, 1942- WPG52 Tallapoosa   Newport News 1915 1.5.1915 8.1915 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, sold 7.1946


Technical data


Displacement normal, t964
Displacement full, t997
Length, m50.5
Breadth, m9.75
Draught, m3.58
No of shafts1
Machinery

1 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.1000
Max speed, kts12.7
Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts)3500
Armament

2 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 1 DCT ("Y"-gun)
Complement72


Graphics


<i>Ossipee</i> 1927
Ossipee 1927
<i>Tallapoosa</i> 1944
Tallapoosa 1944


Project history

Cutters built for Revenue Cutter service and commissioned by Coast Guard.

Modernizations

1930, both: - 1 DCT; + 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 10

1941, both: - 2 x 1 - 57/50; + 1 x 1 - 76/23 Mk 4.9.13/14, 2 DCR

1942 - 1943, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/23; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCT, SO or SU radar

1.1946: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 11, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, SO or SU radar

Naval service

No significant events.