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The Treasury-class cutter was a group of seven high endurance cutters launched by the United States Coast Guard between 1936 and 1937. The class were called the "Treasury class" because they were each named for former Secretaries of the Treasury. These ships were also collectively known as the "327's" as they were all 327 feet (100 m) in length ...
The Coast Guard cutter USCGC Sledge (WLIC-75303), a 75-foot construction tender homeported in Baltimore. USCGC Anvil (WLIC-75301) USCGC Hammer (WLIC-75302) USCGC Sledge (WLIC-75303) USCGC Mallet (WLIC-75304) USCGC Vise (WLIC-75305) USCGC Clamp (WLIC-75306) USCGC Wedge (WLIC-75307) USCGC Spike (WLIC-75308) USCGC Hatchet (WLIC-75309)
These vessels are also known as Secretary- or Hero-class cutters. They are currently being replaced by newer Legend-class cutters. The Owasco-class cutter was a World War II design, the last was retired in the 1970s. The Casco-class cutter was a pre-World War II design, the last was retired in the 1980s under the Philippine Navy.
USCGC Ingham (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-35) is one of only two preserved Treasury-class United States Coast Guard Cutters. Originally Samuel D. Ingham, she was the fourth cutter to be named for Treasury Secretary Samuel D. Ingham. She was the most decorated vessel in the Coast Guard fleet and was the only cutter to ever be awarded two Presidential Unit ...
USCGC Campbell (WPG-32) was a 327-foot (100 m) Secretary-class (also known as Treasury-class) United States Coast Guard ship built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1935-1936 and commissioned in 1936. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. Campbell was named for George Washington Campbell.
The Hamilton-class cutters were intended to fulfill both the peacetime and wartime requirements of the Coast Guard. [13] Construction at Avondale Shipyards on the lead ship, the Hamilton, began in the 1960s and the cutter was commissioned on March 18, 1967. Originally the Coast Guard planned to build 36 Hamilton-class cutters.
USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34) was a Treasury-class cutter.She was named after Founding Father and the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. [1] Sunk after an attack by a German U-boat in January 1942, the Hamilton was the U.S. Coast Guard's first loss of World War II.
The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters.The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."