Amarok, 1942 (WYP-166); ex-Lark; ex-Greyhound One

April 14, 2020
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Amarok, 1942 (WYP-166); ex-Lark; ex-Greyhound One


Builder: Russell Erie Basin Shipyard, Inc., Brooklyn, NY

Commissioned:

Commercial: 1938; USCG: 31 July 1942

Decommissioned: 5 February 1944

Disposition: ?

Cost: Acquisition: $3,539 Conversion: $75,000

Hull: Steel hulled trawler

Displacement (tons)- 450 fl (1942) Tonnage- 237 gross (1941); 123 net (1941)

Length- 128' oa; 119' 3" bp

Beam- 24' 1"

Draft- 12' 7" max (1942)

Machinery:

Main Engines- 1 diesel; BHP- 375; Propellers- Single

Maximum Speed: 10 knots

Economic Speed: 9 knots; 4,600 mile range

Electronics: None

Armament: 1 x 3"/23; 2 x 20mm/80; 2 short depth charge tracks


Design & Service:

The former trawler Lark and Greyhound One. She was commissioned on 31 July 1942, assigned to CINCLANT, stationed at Boston, MA and was pressed into service on the Greenland Patrol.

She was decommissioned on 5 February 1944.

 

Sources:

Ship’s History File, CG Historian’s Office Archive.

Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983.