POINT TURNER, 1967 (WPB 82365)

March 18, 2021
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POINT TURNER, 1967

WPB 82365


Builder:  J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, WA 

Commissioned:  14 April 1967 

Decommissioned:  3 April 1998 

Disposition:  Transferred to St. Lucia, 15 April 1998 

Length:  82’10” oa, 78’ bp 

Navigation Draft:  5’11” max (1960) 

Beam:  17’7” max 

Displacement:  69 fl; 60 light (1960) 

Main Engines:  2 Cummins diesel (see class history) 

BHP:  1,600 

Performance, Maximum Sustained:  18.0 kts, 542-mi radius (1,600 hp, 1963)
Performance, Economic:  9.4 kts, 1,500-mi radius (1,600 hp, 1963)

Maximum Speed:  22.9 kts (1963) 

Fuel Capacity:  1,840 gal 

Complement:  8 men (1960), 2 officers, 8 men (1965) 

Electronics:

Radar:  SPN-11, CR-103 (1960), or SPS-64 

Armament: 1 x 20mm (1960), 5 x .50 cal mg, 1 x 81 mm mortar (Vietnam service)


Ship's history:

The Point Turner was originally named Point Houghton. She was stationed at Newport, RI. She was used for law enforcement and search and rescue operations. On 18 July 1968, she towed the disabled pleasure craft Hell-o 7 miles east of Boston Light Station to Gloucester, MA. On 10 May 1970, she transported an explosive ordnance team to F/V Moby Dick, which had recovered a live 500-lb bomb. The bomb was defused and carried to Quonset Point by the cutter.


Sources:

Cutter History File.  USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.

"The 82-Foot Class Patrol Boat." U.S. Coast Guard Engineer's Digest No. 133 (Mar-Apr 1962), pp. 2-5.

Robert Scheina.  U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946-1990.  Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990