USCGC Duane (WPG-33)

USCGC Duane under way in the early 1960s
History
United States
Name:	USCGC Duane (WPG-33)
Namesake:	William J. Duane
Builder:	Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania
Cost:	$2,468,460
Yard number:	CG-67
Laid down:	1 May 1935
Launched:	3 June 1936
Commissioned:	1 August 1936
Decommissioned:	1 August 1985
Identification:	Call sign: NRDD
Fate:	Sunk as artificial reef off Key Largo, Florida 27 November 1987
General characteristics
Class and type:	Treasury-class cutter
Displacement:	2,350 long tons (2,388 t)
Length:	327 ft (100 m)
Beam:	41 ft (12 m)
Draft:	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Westinghouse double-reduction geared turbine engines, 6,200 shp (4,623 kW) 2 × Babcock & Wilcox sectional express, air-encased, 400 psi, 200° superheat boilers 2 × 9 ft (2.7 m) three-bladed propellers
Speed:	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Range:	8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement:	1937: 123 (12 officers, 4 warrants, 107 enlisted men) 1941: 223 (16 officers, 5 warrants, 202 enlisted men) 1966: 147 (10 officers, 3 warrants, 134 enlisted men)
Electronic warfare & decoys:	1942: HF/DF 1945: SC-3 50 cm radar SGa 10 cm radar Mk.26 fire control radar QC series sonar 1966: AN/SPS-29D radar AN/SPS-52 radar Mk.26 MOD 4 fire control radar AN/SQS-11 sonar
Armament:	1936: 2 × 5"/51 caliber guns 2 × 6-pounder guns 1 × 1-pounder gun 1941: 3 × 5"/51 caliber guns 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns 4 × .50 cal. Browning machine guns 1 × Y-gun depth charge projector 2 × depth charge racks 1943: 2 × 5"/51 caliber guns 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 6 × K-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge racks 1945: 2 × 5"/38 caliber guns 3 × twin Bofors 40 mm 4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons 1946: 1 × 5"/38 caliber guns 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm autocannon 8 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 1966: 1 × 5"/38 caliber Mark 30 Mod 75 gun, Mark 52 Mod 3 director 1 × Mark 10-1 Hedgehog 2 × Mark 32 Mod 5 torpedo tubes, 4 × Mark 44 Mod 1 torpedoes 2 × .50 cal. Mark 2 Browning machine guns 2 × Mark 13 high altitude parachute flare mortars
Aircraft carried:	1938: Grumman JF-2 1941: Curtiss SOC-4
USCGC Duane (WPG-33)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Monroe County, Florida, USA
Nearest city	Key Largo
Coordinates	25°0′25.98″N 80°20′47.22″W / 25.0072167°N 80.3464500°W / 25.0072167; -80.3464500Coordinates: 25°0′25.98″N 80°20′47.22″W / 25.0072167°N 80.3464500°W / 25.0072167; -80.3464500
NRHP Reference #	02000494
Added to NRHP	May 16, 2002

The USCGC Duane (WPG-33/WAGC-6/WHEC-33) (earlier known as the USCGC William J. Duane) was a cutter in the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid on May 1, 1935 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was launched on June 3, 1936 as a search and rescue and law enforcement vessel.

The "Treasury" class Coast Guard cutters (sometimes referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class) were all named for former Secretaries of the Treasury Department. The cutter Duane was named for William John Duane, who served as the third Secretary of the Treasury to serve under President Andrew Jackson.

After fitting out, she departed the Philadelphia Navy Yard on October 16, 1936 and arrived at Oakland, California on November 24. She was then assigned to temporary duty in Honolulu, and arrived there on December 9, 1936, to participate in the U.S. colonization efforts of the Line Islands in the Pacific. The Duane then returned to her permanent homeport of Oakland, arriving on February 25, 1937. For the next two years, she joined the Bering Sea Patrol Force for annual cruises of that area. In mid-1937 her name was shortened to merely Duane. In September 1939 she was assigned to duty with Destroyer Division 18, conducting neutrality patrols along the Grand Banks (these patrols were known as "Grand Banks Patrols"), as ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt. She departed Oakland on September 7, 1939 and arrived at her new homeport of Boston on September 22, 1939. Here she conducted four Grand Banks patrols, from October through December, 1939, completing her final patrol on January 12, 1940.