3081. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tender Forsythia WAGL-63 c.1943.
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3081. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tender Forsythia WAGL-63 c.1943.
3081. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tender Forsythia WAGL-63 c.1943. Clear, close, original 7” x 9” press photo shows good detail of USCGC Forsythia (WAGL-63/WLR-63). She was a 114-foot, 230-ton buoy tender, one of three such vessels (her sisters were the Dogwood (WAGL-249) and Sycamore (WAGL-268)), built to replace the stern paddle-wheel steamers that the Coast Guard decided were too expensive to maintain. She was built by Avondale Marine Ways of Westwego, Louisiana, and entered service in 1943. She was stationed at Sewickley, Pennsylvania until 1963, and then Memphis, Tennessee, until she was decommissioned in 1977. Photo is b/w and includes id. Clear, close view, great detail. This is a rarely seen view. (VG+). $38.