Tallapoosa-class cutter

USCGC Tallapoosa (WPG-52), 1920
Class overview
Builders	Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators	United States Coast Guard
In service	- 1946
In commission	1915–1946
Completed	2
Retired	2
General characteristics
Displacement	912-964 tons
Length	165 ft 10 in
Beam	32 ft
Draft	11 ft 9 in
Propulsion	Variable
Speed	12 knots
Complement	9 officers, 63-65 enlisted
Armament	4 × 6-pounders (1915); 2 × 6-pdrs; 2 × 3" 50-cal (single-mounts) (as of 1930); 2 × 3"/50 (single-mounts); 1 × 3"/23; 2 × depth charge tracks (as of 1941); 2 × 3"/50 (single-mounts); 2 × 20mm/80 (single-mounts); 2 × Mousetraps; 4 × K-guns; 2 × depth charge tracks (as of 1945).

The Tallapoosa-class cutters is a group of two Coast Guard cutters that served with the United States Coast Guard from the 1920s to the late 1940s.

Design

The Tallapoosa-class cutters were designed for long cruises, and their hulls were reinforced for light ice-breaking.

During World War II, the Ossipee was actually classified as a river gunboat (WPR) while the Tallapoosa was classified as a patrol gunboat (WPG).

Ships in class

• Ossipee
• Tallapoosa

References

• Ossipee (1915) ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, US Coast Guard website
• Canney, Donald L. (1995): U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press).
• Scheina, Robert L. (1982): U.S. Coast Guard Cutters and Craft in World War II (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press).
• U.S. Coast Guard. Public Information Division. Historical Section (1949): The Coast Guard at War: Transports and Escorts (Vol. V) (Washington, DC: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters.

External links

Media related to Tallapoosa class cutters at Wikimedia Commons