USCGC Bramble (WLB-392)
USCGC Bramble
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| Builder: | Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota |
| Cost: | $925,464 |
| Laid down: | 02 August 1943 |
| Launched: | 23 October 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 22 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 May 2003 |
| Nickname(s): | The Thorn of the Great Lakes. Arctic Aristocrats. The Bumble. |
| Fate: | Museum ship |
| Notes: | The USCG call sign of Bramble was NODK. |
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| Class and type: | Class C or Iris Class. |
| Displacement: | 1,025 long tons (1,041 t) |
| Length: | 180 oa. |
| Beam: | 37 mb. |
| Draft: | 12 feet (1945). 13 feet and 11 inches (1962) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × General Motors EMD 645 V8 Diesel engines |
| Speed: | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 74 enlisted (1945). 3 officers, 2 warrant officers, 42 enlisted (1962). |
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Radar: SL-1 (1945). Sonar WEA (1945). |
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USCGC Bramble
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| Location | 2336 Military St. Port Huron, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 42°57′36″N 82°25′32″W / 42.96000°N 82.42556°WCoordinates: 42°57′36″N 82°25′32″W / 42.96000°N 82.42556°W |
| NRHP Reference # | 12000457 |
| Added to NRHP | August 1, 2012 |
USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) is one of the 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942-1944 for the United States Coast Guard. Bramble is currently a museum ship, part of Port Huron Museum, located in Port Huron, Michigan. She will be closed to the public effective August 14, 2011, owing to a lack of funds. The Port Huron Museum hopes to sell the Bramble for $300,000.
The ship was built by the Zenith Dredge Company in Duluth, Minnesota. Bramble's preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth. On 2 August 1943 the keel was laid, she was launched on 23 October 1943 and commissioned on 22 April 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $925,464.
In the spring on 1945, she departed the Great Lakes to her first homeport of San Pedro, California, to perform aids to navigation duties. Later that year, Bramble was transferred to Juneau, Alaska, for supply and aids to navigation work around the Aleutian Islands.
After World War II, Bramble's homeport was changed to San Francisco. Except for a brief stay in Hawaii in 1946, she remained assigned to San Francisco until 1949. From July to October 1947, Bramble participated in "Operation Crossroads", the first test of an atomic bomb's effect on surface ships, at Bikini Island.
In 1949 Bramble was reassigned to San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved again in 1953 to Miami, Florida. About this time renewed interest in the Northwest Passage brought about another mission for Bramble.
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