USS Tampa (WPG-48)
Tampa, 1921
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| Name: | USCGC Tampa |
| Namesake: | Tampa, Florida |
| Builder: | Union Construction Company, Oakland, California |
| Laid down: | 27 September 1920 |
| Launched: | 19 April 1921 |
| Commissioned: | 15 September 1921 |
| Fate: | Transferred to United States Navy control as USS Tampa (WPG-48) in November 1941. |
| Notes: | Served in U.S. Navy as USS Tampa (WPG-48) 1941–1947. |
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| Class and type: | Tampa class |
| Type: | United States Coast Guard Cutter |
| Displacement: | 1,955 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 240 ft (73 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 1 in (11.91 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) (maximum) |
| Propulsion: | turbo-electric transmission |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 122 |
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USCGC Tampa (Coast Guard Cutter No. 48) was a United States Coast Guard Cutter that served in the United States Coast Guard from 1921 to 1941, and then in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1947.
Tampa was a steel-hulled, single-screw cutter laid down on 27 September 1920 at Oakland, California, by the Union Construction Company. She was launched on 19 April 1921, sponsored by Mrs. Joseph P. Conners.
The cutter was the lead of a series of electric propulsion ships built for the Coast Guard with a contract speed of 16 knots (18.4 mph; 29.6 km/h) that was exceeded on trials with an average speed over a measured mile of 16.3 knots (18.8 mph; 30.2 km/h). The propulsion plant consisted of two oil fired Babcock & Wilcox watertube boilers supplying steam driving a Curtis turbine directly driving a generator that supplied alternating current to a 2,600 horsepower electric drive motor. Propulsion controls were either electronic or by hand and the machinery was self lubricating with the notable result of ease of operation.
The cutter was commissioned Tampa on 15 September 1921, Lieutenant Commander M. J. Wheeler, USCG, in command.
Tampa got underway for the United States East Coast, transited the Panama Canal on 28 October 1921, and arrived at New York City, New York, on 7 November 1921. On 23 November 1921, the cutter shifted to Boston, Massachusetts, her home port. In the ensuing years, Tampa operated as part of the International Ice Patrol established in the aftermath of the RMS Titanic tragedy in 1912. Between March and July – the peak months in which icebergs were regarded as a menace to the northernmost transatlantic sea lanes – Tampa conducted regular patrols, alternating with USCGC Modoc (Coast Guard Cutter No. 39) on 15-day stretches. At the end of each patrol, Tampa would put into Halifax, Nova Scotia, for stores and fuel. Between these cruises in the frigid waters at the northern end of the Atlantic, Tampa operated on exercises and maneuvers, sharpened her skill with target practice and battle drills, and patrolled sailing regattas.
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