Category:USCGC Salvia (WLB-400)

**USCGC Salvia**
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Built by: Zenith Dredge Corporation, Duluth, MN at $923,995
Yard Number: bn CG-169
Keel Laid: 24 June 1943
Launched: 19 September 1943
Commissioned: 19 February 1944
Decommissioned: 4 October 1991
Length: 54.9 m oa
Beam: 11.3 m
Draft: 3.7 m max (1945); 4.4 m (1966)
Displacement: 935 fl (1945); 1,026 fl (1966); 700 light (1966)
Propulsion: 1 electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators driven by 2 Cooper-Bessemer-type GND-8, 4-cycle diesels; single screw
Top speed: 13.0 kts sustained (1945); 11.9 kts sustained (1966)
Economic speed: 8.3 kts (1945); 8.5 kts (1966)
Complement: 6 Officers, 74 men (1945); 4 officers, 2 warrants, 47 men (1966)
Armament: 1-3"/50 (single), 2-20mm/80 (single), 2 depth charge tracks, 2 Mousetraps, 4 Y-guns (1945); None (1966)

March and April 1944 Used on the Great Lakes for general ATON duty and icebreaking.
May 1944 until the end of the war Assigned to the 5th Coast Guard District, stationed at Portsmouth, VA, and used for general ATON duty.
01 November 1945 Homeported at Mobile, AL and used for general ATON duty.
20-23 April 1951 Assisted following the collision between the tankers Esso Suez and Esso Greensboro.
27-30 April 1951 Disabled in Calasieu Pass and was towed to Mobile by USCGC Tampa.
April 1953 Searched for the wreck of National Flight 47 off Mobile Point.
30 October-2 November 1958 Assisted USS Instill
17-18 November 1959 Searched for National Flight 967.
09 February 1964 Collided with the dredge Duplex in Mobile Channel.
Late August 1965 Provided men and equipment to fight a fire on the Liberian MV Arctic Reefer off Choctaw' Point, Mobile, AL.
7-8 December 1968 Searched for survivors from the lost USCGC White Alder.
Salvage operations training vessel for US Navy at Little Creek (VA) Naval Station.

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