USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Shackle (ARS-9) |
| Operator: | US Navy |
| Builder: | Basalt Rock Company |
| Laid down: | 26 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 1 April 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Walker Cochran |
| Christened: | 1 April 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 5 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 June 1946 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Coast Guard |
 United States
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| Name: | USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) |
| Namesake: | Revenue Cutter Acushnet |
| Operator: | United States Coast Guard |
| Commissioned: | 23 August 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 March 2011 |
| Reclassified: | (WAGO-167)- 1968. (WMEC-167)- 1978 |
| Homeport: | Ketchikan, AK |
| Motto: | Help, Save, Strengthen! |
| Nickname(s): | "A" team of Alaska Fisheries |
| Status: | Decommissioned, awaiting disposal |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,720 long tons (1,750 t) |
| Length: | 213 ft 6 in (65.07 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric, four Fairbanks-Morse 6-cylinder opposed piston engines driving four generators and motors, driving two shafts with 3,460 shp (2.58 MW) |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
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| Crew: | 75 |
| Armament: | two 40 mm AA gun mounts; four .50 cal. machine guns |
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USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) was a cutter of the United States Coast Guard, homeported in Ketchikan, Alaska. She was originally USS Shackle (ARS-9), a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the United States Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for coming to the aid of stricken vessels and received three battle stars during World War II, before a long career with the Coast Guard. Acushnet patrolled the waters of the North Pacific and was the sole remaining World War II era ship on active duty in the US fleet upon her retirement in 2011.
USS Shackle was laid down on 26 October 1942 by the Basalt Rock Company in Napa, California; launched on 1 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Walker Cochran; and commissioned on 5 February 1944, Lieutenant Charles G. Jenkins, Jr., in command. At the time of its building, the country was at war and in need of more naval vessels. As a result of the necessity, three ships, identified only as "naval auxiliaries" underwent construction. The project took less than a year to complete and would become fleet rescue and salvage vessels serving in the Pacific Theater. These vessels would later all become Coast Guard cutters.
Shackle's first station was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where she served as a salvage ship in the West Pacific throughout the remainder of World War II. Shackle's first year was spent completing extensive salvage assignments clearing wreckage in the channels at Pearl Harbor and Midway Island. The vessel spent the rest of the year in Guam, Eniwetok, Tinian and Saipan.
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