14274. (photo) Coast Guard Cutter Carrabasset c.1935.
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14274. (photo) Coast Guard Cutter Carrabasset c.1935.
14274. (photo) Coast Guard Cutter Carrabasset c.1935. Clear close press photo shows good detail of this early cutter underway. Carrabasset was built of composite construction for the Navy as one of the Bagaduce-class auxiliary fleet tugs. She was launched in 1919. She served in the Navy in various capacities until 1924 when she was transferred to the Treasury Department for use by the Coast Guard. She served at Norfolk, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, and New York on towing duty as one of three ocean-going tugs operated by the Coast Guard, through the 1920s and was then stationed at Port Everglades, Florida, in the mid-1930s and Curtis Bay, Maryland prior to World War II. She was decommissioned on 26 July 1946. Measures 7” x 9”. Dated September 7, 1935. Note the Coast Guard ensign flying above the crows nest on the foremast. (VG). $48.