USCG CG-113

United States Coast Guard
Name	CG-113
Ordered	1924
Builder	Mathis Yacht Building Company, Camden, New Jersey
Commissioned	1924/1925
Decommissioned	1932/1933
Stricken	1928
Identification	code letters: NALB[1]
Fate	Sunk in collision, 20 July 1928
General characteristics
Tonnage	37.5 GRT[2]
Length	74.9 ft (22.8 m) o/a[2]
Beam	13.6 ft (4.1 m)
Draught	3.75 ft (1.14 m)
Installed power	500 SHP[2]
Propulsion	two Sterling 6-cylinder gasoline engines, two propellers[2]
Complement	8
Armament	1 x 1-pounder gun forward

CG-113 was a wooden-hulled patrol vessel in commission in the fleet of the United States Coast Guard.

History

She was laid down at the Camden, New Jersey shipyard of Mathis Yacht Building Company, one of 203 "Six-Bitters" ordered by the United States Coast Guard.[3][2] She was designed for long-range picket and patrol duty during Prohibition for postings 20 to 30 miles from shore.[4] The date of her launching and completion is uncertain although the class design was finalized in April 1924 and all of the Six-Bitters were commissioned by 1925.[4] She was commissioned in 1924/1925 as CG-113.[3] On 20 July 1928, she was sunk after being hit amidships by the passenger steamship SS Culberson in heavy fog off Cape May; two of her seven crewman were killed.[5][6][7]

References

1. Commercial and Government Radio Stations of the U.S. - Government Ship Radio Stations. United States Department of Commerce. 30 June 1924. p. 100.
2. Priolo, Gary P.; Wright, David L. "YP-10 ex CG-194 (1924 - 1933)". NavSource - Naval Source History. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
3. Flynn, Jr., James T. (23 June 2014). Vessels of less than 100-feet in Length (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard Small Cutters and Patrol Boats 1915 - 2012.
4. Canney, Donald L. (1989). "Rum War: The U.S. Coast Guard and Prohibition (Coast Guard Bicentennial Series)" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard. Retrieved 17 March 2020. The final plans were available in April 2014 and the first of the class, CG-100, was commissioned on October 21, 1924. CG-302, the last completed, was commissioned July 18, 1925. An average of five completed each week.
5. "Two Men Lost In Boat Crash Off Cape May". The Evening Review. 20 July 1928.
6. Flynn states July 23, 1928 and the Coast Guard lists July 25, 1928
7. "Cutter Losses" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office.