USCGC Woodrush (WLB-407)
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| Name: | USCGC Woodrush. |
| Namesake: | Woodrush. |
| Owner: | U.S. Coast Guard. |
| Builder: | Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota. |
| Cost: | $ 926,156.00 USD. |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1944. |
| Launched: | 28 April 1944. |
| Commissioned: | 22 September 1944. |
| Decommissioned: | 2 March 2001, sold to Republic of Ghana. |
| In service: | 1944. |
| Out of service: | 2001. |
| Refit: | July 1978 to March 1980 at CGY, Curtis Bay, Maryland. |
| Homeport: | Duluth, Minnesota (1944). Sitka, Alaska (1980). |
| Nickname(s): | Woodie. |
| Fate: | Sold to Ghana Navy. |
 Ghana
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| Name: | GNS Anzone P30 |
| Commissioned: | 2001 |
| Status: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Iris or C class 180 foot buoy tender. |
| Type: | Coast Guard, Auxiliary, General, Lighthouse (tender) WAGL. Coast Guard, Large, Buoy (tender) WLB. |
| Length: | 180 ft (55 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) 6 inches (150 mm). |
| Ice class: | Notched forefoot, ice-belt at waterline, reinforced bow and stern. |
| Propulsion: | 2 Cooper-Bessemer Diesel Engines; 1,200 SHP; single screw (1944). |
| 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). |
| Endurance: | Max: 13.5 knots, 10,000-mile range (1962) Economic: 10.5 knots, 13,000-mile range (1962). |
| Capacity: | Diesel Oil: 43,000 gallons. Potable Water: 12,500 gallons. |
| Complement: | 47 (1962). |
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Electronics: Radar SL-1. Sonar QCU. |
| Armament: |
Wartime: 20mm guns, 1 x 3 inch gun, depth charges, M2 Browning machine guns and small arms. Peacetime: M2 Browning machine guns, M60 machine guns, and small arms. |
| Notes: | Ship USCG callsign was NODZ. Ship was equipped with a 20-ton electric boom. |
Wartime: 20mm guns, 1 x 3 inch gun, depth charges, M2 Browning machine guns and small arms.
USCGC Woodrush (WLB-407) was a buoy tender that performed general aids-to-navigation (ATON), search and rescue (SAR), and icebreaking duties for the United States Coast Guard (USCG) from 1944 to 2001 from home ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Sitka, Alaska. She responded from Duluth at full speed through a gale and high seas to the scene of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in 1975. In 1980, she took part in a rescue rated in the top 10 USCG rescues when she helped to save the passengers and crew of the cruise ship Prinsendam after it caught fire in position 57°38"N 140° 25"W then while being towed sank off Graham Island, British Columbia. She was one of the first vessels to respond to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. She was decommissioned on 2 March 2001 and sold to the Republic of Ghana to serve in the Ghana Navy.
Woodrush was built by the Zenith Dredge Company in Duluth, Minnesota as a 180 feet (55 m), Iris or C-Class tender. Her keel was laid on 4 February 1944, and she was launched on 28 April 1944. Like the "A" and "B" class tenders in the 180 feet (55 m) class, she was constructed of welded steel with a notched forefoot, ice-belt at the waterline, a reinforced bow for icebreaking capabilities. The superstructure was extended to the ship's sides for increased interior volume above the main deck. Her finer lines in the bow and stern and deeper draft were designed to increase seaworthiness. The utilitarian design allowed the vessel to serve as a search and rescue (SAR) or naval platform. Twin diesel generators powered an electric motor that turned a single propeller. As a C-Class tender, Woodrush carried more fuel than the "A" and "B" Class tenders. She was "fitted with power vangs that attached to the bridge wings and manipulated the cargo boom" that were used on "B" and "C" tenders.
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