USCGC Maple (WLB-207)

Maple in front of the LeConte Glacier
History
United States
Name:	USCGC Maple (WLB-207)
Builder:	Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisconsin
Yard number:	107
Commissioned:	October 19, 2001
Motto:	Gis'ook Daat Wustaax'i ("Keeper of the Northern Lights")
Status:	in active service, as of 2012[update]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Juniper-class seagoing buoy tender
Displacement:	2,000 long tons (2,032 t)
Length:	225 ft (69 m)
Beam:	46 ft (14 m)
Draft:	13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion:	2 × CAT 3608 3,100 hp (2,312 kW) diesel engines, single shaft 1 × 450 hp (336 kW) bow thruster 1 × 550 hp (410 kW) stern thruster
Speed:	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried:	1 × 22 ft (6.7 m) RHIB 1 × 24 ft (7.3 m) aluminum-hulled workboat
Complement:	~50

USCGC Maple (WLB-207) is a 225-foot United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender. Maple is the seventh of 16 in the Juniper class and took the place of the decommissioned USCGC Woodrush.

Based in Sitka, Alaska and moored in Sitka Channel, the crew housing and port facilities of the Maple are located on Japonski Island.

On its maiden voyage, the Maple left a life ring from the Woodrush at the site of the sunken wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The Maple sailing in front of Mount Edgecumbe.

The Maple undergoing an exercise with a USCG helicopter.

The Maple sailing in Peril Strait