USCGC Escanaba (WPG-77)
Escanaba before World War II | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Escanaba |
| Namesake | Escanaba, Michigan |
| Ordered | 10 November 1931 |
| Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
| Launched | 17 September 1932 |
| Commissioned | 23 November 1932 |
| Identification | Hull number: WPG-77 |
| Fate | Sunk 13 June 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | A-class cutter |
| Displacement | 1,005 long tons (1,021 t) |
| Length | 165 ft (50 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Speed | 12.8 kn (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph) |
| Range | 5,079 mi (8,174 km) |
| Complement | 105 |
| Armament | 2 × 3-inch/50; 2 × 20 mm/80 (single mount); 2 × depth charge tracks; 4 × "Y" guns; 2 × mousetraps |
USCGC Escanaba (WPG-77) was a 165 ft (50 m) A type United States Coast Guard cutter stationed on the Great Lakes from her commissioning in 1932 until the start of U.S. military involvement in World War II in 1941. With the outbreak of war, Escanaba redeployed to participate in the Battle of the Atlantic, during the course of which she was ultimately lost with nearly her entire crew. Struck by either a torpedo or mine in the early morning of 13 June 1943, while serving as a convoy escort, Escanaba suffered a fiery explosion and sank within minutes, leaving only two survivors and one body out of her 105-man crew to be found on the surface by rescuers.