USCGC Dione

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USCGC Dione on May 17, 1945
History
Ensign of the United States Coast Guard.svgUnited States
NameUSCGC Dione
Namesake Dione, mother of Aphrodite
Owner United States Coast Guard
Builder Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corporation
Cost US$258,000
Yard numberBuilding number: P-13
Laid downNovember 10, 1933
LaunchedJune 30, 1934
CommissionedOctober 5, 1934
RecommissionedFebruary 4, 1951
Decommissioned
  • July 23, 1947
  • February 8, 1963
In service
  • 1934–1947
  • 1952–1963
Refit
  • 1945
  • 1960
Homeport
Identification
FateSold by USCG on February 24, 1964
History
Flag of the United States.svgUnited States
Name
  • Dione
  • Delta I
  • Big Trouble
  • Al Rashid
Namesake Dione, mother of Aphrodite
Owner
  • Palmer Decker Boat Company (c. 1968)
  • Delta Marine Drilling Co. (c. 1970)
  • SABIC (c. 1978)
Port of registry New Orleans, Louisiana (c. 1978)
In service1964-1992
Homeport
Identification
FateLast reported in 1992
General characteristics (1933 construction)
Class & type Thetis-class patrol boat
Displacement337 tons
Length165 ft (50 m) overall
Beam25 ft 3 in (7.70 m)
Draft7 ft 8 in (2.34 m)
Installed power2 x Winton, 6-cyl, Model 158 diesels
PropulsionTwo three-bladed propellers
Range
  • 1,750 mi (2,820 km) (maximum sustained speed)
  • 3,000 mi (4,800 km) (cruising speed)
  • 6,417 mi (10,327 km) (economic speed)
Capacity7,700 US gal (29,000 L; 6,400 imp gal)
Complement5 officers, 39 men
Sensors &
processing systems		QCN-1 sonar system
Armament
General characteristics (1945)
Displacement350 tons
Draft10 ft (3.0 m)
Complement7 officers, 68 men
Armament2 x 3"/50; 2 x 20mm/80; 2 x depth charge tracks; 2 x Mousetraps; 2 x Y-guns
General characteristics (in civilian use)
Type
Tonnage
  • 337 GRT (as Delta I)
  • 256 GRT (as Al Rashid)
  • 142 NRT (as Delta I)
Sensors &
processing systems		Class A AIS transponder (as Al Rashid)

USCGCDione (WPC-107) was a Thetis-class patrol boat operated by the United States Coast Guard between 1934 and 1963. She was laid down in 1933 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and both launched and commissioned the next year.

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Assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, the cutter was most prominent for her role as an anti-submarine ship during World War II, operating in the region off the Outer Banks of North Carolina nicknamed "Torpedo Alley". During her service in Torpedo Alley, she rescued the survivors of several sunken ships, escorted Allied convoys, and attempted to hunt and sink German U-boats—though she had no success in that capacity.

Dione was decommissioned in 1947 after serving in law enforcement and search and rescue, but was recommissioned in 1951 and assigned to Freeport, Texas. She operated there until 1963, and was sold as a supply ship the next year. She would later be operated out of the Gulf Coast region by several companies and be known by three subsequent names.

Construction and purpose

Dione (left) in 1934, before her launching, alongside her sisters Electra and Pandora USCGCs Dione, Electra, and Pandora.png
Dione (left) in 1934, before her launching, alongside her sisters Electra and Pandora

Dione was built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corporation in Manitowoc, Wisconsin between 1933 and late 1934. The keel of hull number 277 [1] was laid on November 10, 1933. [2] She was launched on June 30, 1934, and was commissioned on October 5 of that year. [1] [3] The cutter was named for Dione, a titaness and mother of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. She cost US$285,000 (equivalent to $6.7 million in 2024) to construct. [4] Dione's building number was P-13, [5] her visual call sign was WPC-107, [1] and her official number was 297193. [6]

Alongside her 17 sister ships, Dione and the rest of the Thetis class cutters were designed to combat alcohol smuggling during Prohibition. The vessels were intended to be large and fast enough to intercept large smuggler ships that loitered off the American coast. These so-called "mother ships" were an issue, as they supplied alcohol to small boats that brought the drinks ashore. [7] : 108  The ships formed the outer ring of a newly-built network of cutters intended to intercept smuggling. While the Thetis and Active classes patrolled off the coast, a range of smaller cutters and boats patrolled closer to shore to create a continuous buffer of Prohibition enforcement that stretched from the open ocean to inner harbors. [7] : 89, 95, 99, 105 

Specifications

General arrangement plan of a Thetis-class cutter Accommodation plans of USCGC Dione.png
General arrangement plan of a Thetis-class cutter

Dione was 165 feet (50 m) long overall, and had a beam of 25.25 feet (7.70 m). When she was constructed, the ship had a draft of 7.67 feet (2.34 m). She had two three-bladed propellers, powered by two 6-cylinder diesel engines, each capable of 670 brake horsepower (500 kW). Her displacement was 337 long tons (342  t ) while fully loaded. [4]

The cutter could travel a maximum speed of 16 knots (30  km/h ; 18  mph ), a maximum sustained speed of 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph), a cruising speed of 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph), and an economic speed of 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph). She had a range of 1,750 miles (2,820 km) while traveling at her maximum sustained speed, a range of 3,000 miles (4,800 km) while traveling at her cruising speed, and a range of 6,417 miles (10,327 km) while traveling at her economic speed. [4]

She was fitted with a 3-inch/23-caliber anti-aircraft gun and a 1-pounder pom-pom for defense. [4] She carried a QCN-1 sonar system and had a fuel capacity of 7,700 gallons. [2]

Service history

Pre-war

Dione was constructed with the goal of enforcing Prohibition, though the Twenty-first Amendment had repealed the ban on alcohol in 1933—a year before she was completed. [8] She was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. [4] [9]

The cutter primarily focused on search and rescue efforts, responding to vessels that had signaled that they were in distress, [10] [11] carrying injured seamen to Norfolk, [12] [13] and locating the wreckage of downed planes. [14] She also operated in miscellaneous capacities, such as accompanying vessels participating in a Hampton One-Design race in August 1941. [15]

In November 1937, Dione joined in on the search for survivors of the sunken cargo ship SS Tzenny Chandris, which had sunk in a storm off Hatteras on the night of November 12–13. Multiple lifeboats were found empty, but 15 survivors were eventually found clinging to wreckage by the cutter Mendota and were subsequently taken to Norfolk. [16] [17]

World War II

After the American entry into World War II, Dione was assigned to both the Fifth Naval District —the United States Navy (USN) command responsible for defending American coastal waters off southeastern Virginia and North Carolina —and the Eastern Sea Frontier, a USN operational command. [4] [8] The cutter was assigned to anti-submarine duties, and was the only ship there to oppose German submarines, called U-boats. [18] While filling out this duty, she operated out of Naval Operating Base Norfolk. [4]

In December 1941, Dione's 1-pounder gun was removed. Installed in its place two racks to hold depth charges and a Y-gun depth charge launcher designed to throw depth charges over the sides of the ship. [19] The cutter mainly patrolled the waters between Norfolk and Morehead City, North Carolina to hunt search for U-boats; she also made mail runs to the lightships that operated off the Outer Banks and was under orders to investigate distress signals sent from torpedoed ships. [18] [20]

Second Happy Time

Dione deploying depth charges, 1942 Dione depth charges.png
Dione deploying depth charges, 1942

Dione was placed under the command of Lieutenant Nelson McCormick in January 1942. Much to McCormick's anger, the cutter seemed to be too far away whenever she raced to respond to distress signals, so the lieutenant decided to take an offensive strategy to his patrols, using Dione as a killer rather than a rescuer. After deducing that U-boats generally attacked at night and "slept" during the day, McCormick decided to abandon his usual routine in favor of grid-searching the waters off the Outer Banks for U-boats. The cutter's searches would often utilize sonar and other sound-detection gear. [18] [20]

Sometime at the end of January, Dione dropped six depth charges after her sonar man reported an "underwater object" 20 miles (32 km) off Oregon Inlet. Two airplanes soon arrived, making several runs on a rapidly spreading patch of oil. They reported to McCormick that they saw something long and narrow, raising the lieutenant's hopes of sinking a U-boat. An oar and a boat hook eventually surfaced, and when brought aboard were found to have been from the oil tanker Francis E. Powell, which had been sunk by U-130 on January 27. [18]

In early February, Dione was ordered to Little Creek Section Base to pick up a new master, Lieutenant James Alger. McCormick was kept aboard Dione as an executive officer, and to command the cutter when intricate maneuvers were required. On Alger's first day, Dione's sonar operator called out an echo. Nothing was initially found, but a second echo later in the afternoon caused the cutter's new master to order depth charges dropped. After a spew of oil came to the surface, two life rafts were dispatched to collect samples—much like McCormick, Alger had Dione drop depth charges on a sunken oil tanker. [18]

On February 12, the cutter's sonar operator reported a periscope off Dione's port beam. Alger ordered general quarters and had depth charges dropped from both the Y-gun and the rack, some going off at 100 feet (30 m) while others went off at 50 feet (15 m). Dione rapidly accelerated, her lights and equipment going dead as the cutter's propellers came free of the water. The cutter's engines were stopped and her electrical power was restored. No U-boat was spotted, if there even was one. Dione had been "blinded by her own depth charges." [18]

Later that same month, on February 19, the cutter towed the minesweeper USS Paramount to Morehead City after she had been grounded at the entrance to Ocracoke Inlet. [21] Dione set off for Cape Henry late at night on February 27 to assist the torpedoed freighter North Sea. She was found by Dione early the next morning, shell holes dotted across the freighter's hull. Apparently, a U-boat's attack on North Sea had been halted due to a storm that had tossed the U-boat about and ruined its aim. Dione towed the damaged freighter, which had lost its steering capabilities in the attack, to Little Creek by the end of the day. [18]

Dione rescuing the crew of a torpedoed ship, 1942 Dione rescue.png
Dione rescuing the crew of a torpedoed ship, 1942

On March 17, Dione rescued the crew of the damaged storage tanker SS Acme, which had been torpedoed by U-124 1 nautical mile (1.2 mi; 1.9 km) west of the Diamond Shoals Light Buoy. [22] [23] That same day, she picked up the crew of a Greek vessel, SS Kassandra Louloudis, and took her survivors on as well and delivered everyone to Norfolk. [24]

On March 20, Dione made contact with a U-boat. A USCG airplane from the Elizabeth City Air Station dropped two depth charges with unknown results. [4] On March 23, she responded to the distress signals of the oil tanker Naeco, torpedoed by U-124. The cutter rescued at least ten survivors from a lifeboat and two more from the water, all of whom were taken to Norfolk. [18] [22]

Just three days later, on March 26, Dione spotted flames from the sinking oil tanker SS Dixie Arrow and headed to investigate. The tanker's survivors had already been rescued by the destroyer USS Tarbell, and Alger was furious after finding nothing but debris. The cutter then headed south to the waters off Hatteras, North Carolina. [18] On April 5, Dione responded to the torpedoed oil tanker SS Byron D. Benson, and pulled one survivor from the water. [18] [25]

Dione rendezvoused with USS Dickerson on April 14, near the Diamond Shoals Light Buoy. Lieutenant Dick Bacchus had taken over as the cutter's navigator and executive officer, though McCormick remained aboard. As the two ships began convoy work, Dione struggling to keep up with the destroyer, described as looking, "like a sheep dog barking at the heels of his flock." [18] The convoy was joined by another cutter, and escorted two freighters north past North Carolina. [26] After Dickerson relieved both cutters of duty, Dione headed back south for a nightly patrol. [18]

The next morning, April 15, Dione met up with Dickerson once more to escort a convoy, this time consisting of two British trawlers, two American tankers, and an American freighter. The tankers were so fast that they vanished over the horizon and disappeared from the convoy's sight. Alger chose to be aggressive despite supposed to be close by the convoy, ranging out and dropping depth charges on any suspected echos to "keep the U-boat off balance." [18]

Dione escorting a convoy, 1942; her Y-gun can be seen behind the sailor in the foreground Dione convoy escort.png
Dione escorting a convoy, 1942; her Y-gun can be seen behind the sailor in the foreground

Dione continued escorting ships alongside Dickerson, falling into a repetitive routine. The tanker would conduct escort duty during the day, and would patrol for U-boats during the night. These convoys were nicknamed "bucket brigades" after the old-fashioned method of transporting buckets during a fire. Since the convoys had begun, not a single ship had been lost to U-boats near Cape Hatteras or Cape Lookout. [18] On April 18, Dione was observed dropping depth charges on an unknown submarine, with no visible results. [4]

On April 19, Dione arrived to escort a convoy by herself. She initially met up with eight merchant ships of several nationalities, and was eventually joined by a British trawler and an 88-foot cutter. Alger ordered his ship to the front of the convoy. Dione's crew became concerned about the number of targets in the convoy, mainly big tankers. The convoy moved past Cape Hatteras without incident, and Alger was nearing the drop-off point by 1900 hours. He had used Dione as a destroyer, screening and picking up stragglers in an attempt to keep them up. Suddenly, a torpedo appeared in the water, racing towards the cutter. A USN airplane appeared and began diving towards the convoy, Alger giving the order to turn hard to starboard and move full ahead. The torpedo meant for Dione missed the cutter but instead struck the tanker Axtell J. Byles at 2000 hours, which sank some time thereafter. Something was struck by one of Dione's depth charges. Following this incident, it was decided that the convoys should run at night to reduce the risk of casualties. [18]

Dione began patrolling around the Wimble Shoals Buoy after her escort missions were finished, beginning demolition exercises on Axtell J. Byles' wreck on April 25. Her crew dropped depth charges on the wreck all day, hoping to discover what they had hit. On April 29, Dione was ordered back to Little Creek for repairs and rearmament. Work on the cutter finished on May 13. [18]

On May 18, Dione left Norfolk to join a convoy heading to Key West, Florida. On May 20, it was discovered that the cutter's port engine was "acting up". It was decided that she would continue on the convoy running on one engine while her other one was repaired. She traveled in the starboard quarter of the convoy and occasionally traveled further away from the convoy to listen for sonar pings. Dione was eventually forced to fall to the rear position after a ship began lagging behind. The convoy reached Florida on May 23. [18]

Sometime in May, Dione met up with USS Ellis, a destroyer of the same class as Dickerson. The two ships completed support missions and responded to Coast Guard aircraft reports. On one occasion, the duo steamed to the location of two allegedly damaged and submerged U-boats roughly 50 miles (80 km) off the New Jersey coast and dropped depth charges. [9]

Esso Augusta under tow after being damaged by a mine, June 1942 Esso Augusta damaged.jpg
Esso Augusta under tow after being damaged by a mine, June 1942

On June 15, a convoy Dione was escorting began maneuvering into a single-file line in preparation to enter the Chesapeake Bay. Suddenly, the fifth tanker in the line shook as water and smoke erupted from its side. The tanker, Robert C. Tuttle, had struck a mine and began to sink as vacationers in Virginia Beach watched in horror. [18] Believing the tanker had been torpedoed, the tanker Esso Augusta attempted to flee, only to strike a mine herself. Dione dropped eight depth charges, and her ninth caused yet another explosion to occur. Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a U-boat, but naval officials concluded that the incident was due to mines laid in the Thimble Shoal Channel between Virginia Beach and Virginia's eastern shore. [27] [28]

On June 24, at 1900 hours, the cutter made an underwater contact while escorting a convoy. Five minutes later, she dropped one depth charge with no results. At 1910 hours, two other ships in the convoy, SS Nordland and SS Manuela, appeared to have been torpedoed. Dione made a sweep search for the submarine, which appeared to be on the convoy's starboard side. Nordland proceeded to catch fire and sink, and her survivors were rescued by SS Norwich City. [4]

Dione made another contact with a U-boat the next day, dropping five depth charges. As a result, large amounts of oil bubbled to the surface. A doubtful contact was made just two days later, on June 27, at 1054 hours. The cutter dropped four depth charges but yielded no results. [4] Dione was taken to Norfolk for repairs to her starboard engine at the end of the month. They lasted a week, and the cutter was back into action at the beginning of July. She continued her convoy escort duties into July and August. [18] Following the end of the Second Happy Time, the crew of Dione began to refer to the time period as the "Battle of Torpedo Junction." [18]

1945

Dione (center) escorts U-1228 to Portsmouth, New Hampshire German submarine U-1228 surrenders at Portsmouth NH in May 1945.jpg
Dione (center) escorts U-1228 to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

In early 1945, Dione was rearmed with two 3-inch/50-caliber guns, two 20mm/80 cannons, two "Mousetrap" anti-submarine rocket launchers, and another Y-gun. [4] [9] [29] Her displacement was also increased to 350 long tons (360  t ). [4] She was selected as one of six vessels to serve as the USN's "Surrender Group" for the First Naval District off New England, alongside her sisters Argo and Nemesis. The role of the Surrender Group was to help escort surrendered Axis vessels to American ports where they would be acquired by the government. [30] [31]

On May 17, Dione met up with U-1228 , a German submarine that had fled to Allied waters following the German instrument of surrender on May 8. The submarine surrendered itself to the Allies, and Dione was ordered to escort the German vessel to an American port. The cutter guided U-1228 to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and it was later taken to the Portsmouth Naval Yard. [32] [33] In June, Dione was sent back to the Fifth Naval District, where she was assigned to air and sea rescue duty. [4]

Post-war

Dione in Freeport, Texas, June 1952 USCGC Dione Freeport.jpg
Dione in Freeport, Texas, June 1952

Between 1945 and 1947, Dione was used by the Coast Guard for both law enforcement and search and rescue. She was eventually decommissioned on July 23, 1947, in Cape May, New Jersey, [34] where she spent several years in storage due to a lack of personnel. [4] The cutter was recommissioned on February 4, 1951, in Curtis Bay, Maryland, [35] after a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean. The reactivated Dione was stationed in Freeport, Texas, starting in 1952. [36] She was met with a yacht escort upon her arrival in the port on March 19, 1952. An enlisted sailors' dance and officer's dinner was held in the city, and local schools were closed so students could “extend typical Texan hospitality” to Dione and her crew. [34] [35]

Dione operated in a similar capacity as she had in Norfolk before the Second Happy Time: search and rescue. The cutter towed the damaged buoy tender USCGC Iris in January 1957, [3] helped put out a fire that had started aboard the Freeport sulfur barge FS-20 in 1959, [37] and towed a fishing vessel after a false emergency signal in 1962. [38]

She was the first of five 165 feet (50 m)-long cutters to undergo repairs to her hull in 1960. It was discovered that her insides had corroded and were hidden by insulation and furniture, her C strake —a longitudinal course of plating that stretched from the bow to the stern —had several leaks, and attempts to use welding arcs to fix the latter issue ended up "burning through the basic plate" and resulted in Dione's entire strake needing to be replaced. [39]

Dione remained in Freeport until the end of her service in 1963, and was decommissioned on February 8 of that year. [3] She was sold as a supply ship on February 24, 1964. [4]

Commercial service

The cutter eventually became a merchant vessel, and was given three new names over the course of her career: Delta I, Big Trouble, and Al Rashid. [6] [40] In 1968, while the ship was still named Dione, she was owned by the Palmer Decker Boat Company and based out of Port Arthur, Texas. [41] She had the call sign WD4627. [41] [42] Delta I was given the new call sign WYTJ. The ship was 337 gross register tons and 142 net register tons. She was a freighter, owned by the Delta Marine Drilling Company as of 1970. [43] Al Rashid was assigned the IMO number 7515080, and was converted into a multi-purpose offshore vessel. She had a gross register tonnage of 256. [44] The ship was operated by SABIC, a Saudi chemical company. She was registered in New Orleans and listed as a supply ship in Lloyd's Register of Shipping. [45] She carried a class A AIS transponder. [46] The exact year the former Dione concluded her service is unknown, though the ship was last seen in service in 1992 as Al Rashid. [47]

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