USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157)
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 United States
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| Builder: | American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 1926 |
| Launched: | 27 January 1927 |
| Commissioned: | 3 March 1927 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 May 1933 |
| Identification: | WSC-157 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the U.S. Navy |
 United States
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| Commissioned: | 1 April 1935 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 May 1941 |
| Identification: | AG-26 |
| Fate: | Returned to the U.S. Coast Guard |
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United States
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| Commissioned: | 17 May 1941 (USCG) |
| Identification: | WIX-157 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 26 November 1978 after sinking and salvage following collision with MV Santa Cruz II |
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| Class and type: | Active-class patrol boat |
| Displacement: | 320 tons |
| Length: | 125 ft (38 m) |
| Beam: | 23.5 ft (7.2 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | twin diesel |
| Range: | 4,900 miles (7,900 km) |
| Complement: | 29 |
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USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157) was an Active-class patrol boat built in 1927 which saw action in World War II. Cuyahoga sank after a night-time collision in the Chesapeake Bay while on patrol in 1978. She was later raised and re-sunk as an artificial reef off the Virginia coast and is now a popular recreational dive site.
The Active-class was one of the most useful and long lasting in the service. Thirty-three ships were built with sixteen cutters still in use in the 1960s. The last to be decommissioned was USCGC Morris (WSC-147) in 1970; the last in service was Cuyahoga, sunk in 1978. They were designed for the outer line of patrol during prohibition, trailing mother ships. They gained a reputation for durability only enhanced by their re-engining in the late 1930s; their original 6-cylinder diesels were replaced by significantly more powerful 8-cylinder GE 268-A engines, each with 800 bhp (600 kW) that used the original engine beds and gave the vessels 3 additional knots. All served in World War II, however, USCGC Jackson and USCGC Bedloe, were lost in the Great Atlantic Hurricane in 1944. Ten were refitted as buoy tenders during World War II and reverted to patrol work afterward.
USCGC Cuyahoga was built by American Brown Boveri, launched 27 January 1927 and commissioned 3 March 1927 at Camden, New Jersey. After commissioning, she saw duty in the Atlantic enforcing prohibition by intercepting rumrunners.
On 29 May 1933 Cuyahoga arrived at the Washington Navy Yard and commissioned in the US Navy on 1 April 1935 as AG-26, a tender for the Presidential Yacht USS Potomac.
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