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Date: September 10, 2003 at 21:22:17
From: Steve Huffman, [squid.lb.seidata.com]
Subject: Re: Wakerobin Questions |
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Dan,
Here is 1 photo of the Wakerobin from her pre-halloween days (specifically, 1942). I have posted this one before, but it's easy enough to link it in again. I'll re-post a second photo shortly.
I have some info on the Wakerobin, but not much more than Way's Packet Directory. Way's says the engines were the condensing, high pressure type, with 18" diameter cylinders and 7.5' stroke.
A Coast Guard historian wrote:
"She had two horizontal steam engines powered by two coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox section header boilers. Her maximum speed was 9 knots and she had an economical cruising speed of 5 knots. She was commissioned into the US Lighthouse Service in 1927 and was decommissioned and placed in storage in 1948. She was temporarily transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers in 1949 and in 1955 the transfer was made permanent. During her Coast Guard service she was stationed in Memphis."
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"In 1948 the always parsimonious Coast Guard noted in an official report that 'the cost of operation of the Wakerobin is approximately twice that of diesel cutter Foxglove engaged in similar, but more arduous duties.' The Coast Guard then decommissioned Wakerobin, ending the era of side and stern paddlewheel cutters."
-Capt. Steve
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