16190. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Galatea WPC-108 c.1940
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16190. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Galatea WPC-108 c.1940
16190. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Galatea WPC-108 c.1940. CGC Galatea was commissioned in 1933 and was assigned to Stapleton, New York as part of the New York Division’s Special Patrol Force. She was rearmed in 1940 and was temporarily transferred to the Navy on 25 March 1941 for use as a training vessel for sonar operators at the Navy Sound School at Key West. During the war, she escorted convoys along the eastern seaboard and to Cuba and conducted anti-submarine and search and rescue patrols. In June 1945 she was reassigned to Stapleton, New York, with the Air-Sea Rescue unit based there until she was decommissioned on 15 March 1948. Photograph c.1940. 8” x 10” clear and close view. $18.