USCGC Guthrie

USRC Guthrie was a small patrol vessel, built for the United States Revenue Cutter Service in 1895.[1][2] She was named after James Guthrie, 21st Secretary of the Treasury. She was the third ship of that name, the first two being launched in 1868 and 1882.[3]

USRC Guthrie in 1914
History
United States
Name: Guthrie
Namesake: James Guthrie
Fate: Scrapped 1942
General characteristics
Displacement: 149 tons
Propulsion: Triple expansion steam engine
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h)

The vessel was temporarily transferred from the United States Treasury to the United States Navy, for wartime service, during the Spanish American War, World War I and World War II.[1][2] She was permanently transferred to the newly created United States Coast Guard, when it was formed from the Revenue Cutter Service, the United States Lighthouse Service and the United States Lifeboat Service.

Benjamin Bottoms served as a radio operator aboard her, early in World War II.[4]

She was scrapped in 1942.[1][2]

Specifications

Guthrie was a steel-hulled vessel powered a triple expansion steam engine.[1][2] She was only capable of 10 knots (19 km/h). She displaced 149 tons, and had a crew of 10.

Operational history

During the Spanish–American War she was assigned to patrol Baltimore.[1][2] On 23 January, 1902 she was involved in a minor collision with Emma A. Ford ( United States) in Baltimore Harbor, doing $10 in damage to Ford and $150 to the Guthrie.[5] On May 30, 1903 she was involved in a minor collision with the steamship Queen Anne in the area of Baltimore, suffering only $80 in damage.[6] During World War I she was assigned to patrol Philadelphia. During World War II she patrolled Portland, Maine.

See also

References
  1. "Guthrie (James), 1895" (PDF). United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2019-02-13. James Guthrie (1792-1869) was appointed to be the 21st Secretary of the Treasury by President Franklin Pierce. He began his term in office on 7 March 1853, and served until 6 March 1857.
  2. "Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: USCGC Guthrie". Archived from the original on 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  3. United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. "Ships and aircraft". USCG. Archived from the original on 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  4. Christopher Havern (2015-02-18). "Coast Guard Heroes: Benjamin A. Bottoms". Coast Guard Compass. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2019-02-08. Soon after the plane encountered a heavy snow storm and crashed on the ice cap. Bottoms’ last radio message to the ship was that they had a successful takeoff and that he needed weather reports. After the storm subsided, search parties from a nearby U.S. Army base and from the ship were organized to search for the lost aircraft.
  5. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903". Washington: Government Printing Office. 1903. p. 41. Retrieved 5 May 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
  6. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904". Retrieved 1 August 2019.
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