Taylor, 1920
ex-SC-153
Builder: Gibbs Gas Engine, Jacksonville, FL
To USCG: 22 November 1919
Commissioned: 16 May 1920
Decommissioned: 19 August 1921
Disposition: Sold 11 December 1925
Hull:
Displacement (tons)- 75 tons
Length- 110' oa
Beam- 14' 8.75"
Draft- 5' 11"
Machinery
Main Engines- 3 standard 6-cylinder gasoline engines
SHP-660
Propellers- three
Armament-1 1-pdr.
Design & Service:
The submarine-chaser construction program of World War I resulted in construction of 440 vessels, all of which were completed by February 1919. To free steel supplies for larger vessels, all of these vessels were built of wood in various small shipyards. Two-hundred twenty-one of these vessels were sent to Europe, but the rest were parceled out for other uses after the Armistice. The majority of the Coast Guard vessels had short service lives because they were not economical to operate or maintain. Many of these vessels were named for members of the torpedoed USCGC Tampa, lost during World War I.
Commissioned 16 May 1920 and decommissioned 19 August 1921, she was loaned to the Prohibition Commissioner in 1922 and later returned.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard. Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).