Arluk, 1942 (WYP-167); ex-Atlantic

April 17, 2020
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Arluk, 1942 (WYP-167); ex-Atlantic


Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA

Commissioned: Commercial: 1934; USCG: 16 July 1942

Decommissioned: 6 July 1944

Disposition: returned to owner, 6 July 1944

Cost: Acquisition War Shipping Administration loan; conversion $75,000

Hull:

Displacement (tons)- 370 fl (1942)

Tonnage- 163 gross (1941); 84 net (1941)

Length- 110' 3" oa' 102' 5" bp

Beam- 22' 1" max 

Draft- 10' ^" max (1942)

Machinery: Main Engines- 1 diesel; BHP- 250; Propellers- Single

Maximum Speed: 9 knots

Economic Speed: 8 knots; 4,530 mile range

Electronics: None

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


Design & Service:

The former trawler Atlantic. She was commissioned on 16 July 1942, assigned to CINCLANT, and was stationed at Boston, MA. She was pressed into service on the Greenland Patrol.

She was decommissioned on 6 July 1944 and was returned to her owner.

Note: sometimes referenced as the "Arluck".


Sources:

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

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