USCGC Walnut (WLM-252)
USCGC Walnut underway, 1981 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Walnut |
| Namesake | Walnut |
| Operator | |
| Builder | Moore Dry Dock Company Oakland, California |
| Commissioned | 8 July 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1982 |
| Fate | Transferred to Honduras |
| Honduras | |
| Name | Yojoa |
| Operator | Honduran Navy |
| Acquired | 1982 |
| Out of service | 1998 |
| Identification | FNH–252 |
| Fate | Wrecked during Hurricane Mitch, 1998 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | General, Lighthouse tender WAGL; Coastal Buoy tender, WLM |
| Displacement | 885 tons. |
| Length | 174 ft 8+1⁄2 in (53.251 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) |
| Ice class | Reinforced bow and stern. Ice-belt at water-line, notched forefoot. |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 2,000 mi (3,200 km) |
| Complement | 4 officers, 1 warrant officer, 69 enlisted (1945) |
| Crew | 74 (1945). |
| Sensors & processing systems | Radar: SO-1 (1945); CS (1966). Sonar: WEA-2 (1945); UNQ-1 (1966) |
| Armament |
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| Notes | D |
The USCGC Walnut (WLM-252) was a steel-hulled, steam-powered twin-screw Hollyhock-class tender built for the Lighthouse Service in 1939 at Oakland, California. With the transfer of the Lighthouse Service to the Coast Guard in June, 1939, she was commissioned as a Coast Guard cutter on 8 July 1939.