Shadbush, 1944
WAGL 287
Any of various North American shrubs or trees of the genus Amelanchier, having white flowers, edible blue-black or purplish fruit, and smooth, gray, striped twigs. Also called Juneberry, shadblow.
Builder: Peterson & Haecker, Limited, Blair, Nebraska
Length: 73' 6"
Beam: 18' 10"
Draft: 3' 6"
Displacement: 80 tons
Cost: $185,450
Launched: 15 May 1944
Commissioned: 28 July 1944
Decommissioned: 24 February 1976
Disposition: Sold
Machinery: 2 Buda diesel engines; 150 BHP; twin propellers
Performance & Endurance:
Max: 9.6 knots
Cruising: 6.4 knots; 3,300 mile range
Complement: 8
Deck Gear: 1.5 ton capacity boom; electric hoist
Armament: None (small arms?)
Electronics: None (1944)
History:
Shadbush was one of two 73-foot inland buoy tenders built by Peterson & Haecker, Limited, of Blair, Nebraska, the other being Clematis. They were designed by the Coast Guard with detail drawings by A. M. Deering of Chicago. In the mid-1960s, they had their pilothouses raised four feet off the buoy deck and the space left underneath was then used for storage.
Shadbush was initially stationed at Mobile, Alabama, and was used for servicing aids to navigation, as well as being called upon for search and rescue and law enforcement operations when needed. She transferred to New Orleans, Lousiana on 28 April 1967. From 7 to 8 December 1968 she searched for survivors of the CGC White Alder that had sunk after a collision.
She transferred to Galveston, Texas in late 1975 where she remained based until she was decommissioned the following year on 24 February 1976.
Sources:
Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.
Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946 - 1990. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.