The second USS ''Apache'' was a
United States Coast Guard cutter
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that served in the
United States Navy as a
patrol vessel from 1917-1919.
''Apache'' was built in 1891 as the
United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter
USRC ''Galveston'' by
Reeder and Sons at
Baltimore
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,
Maryland. In 1900, her name was changed to USRC ''Apache'' and, upon the creation of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915, she became USCGC ''Apache''.
Service history
On 30 April 1907 she struck the anchored barge ''C. T. Rowland'' in fog in
Chesapeake Bay at the lower end of the Craighill Channel.
''Apache'' entered U.S. Navy service after the U.S. entered
World War I in April 1917 and the Coast Guard came under U.S. Navy control for the duration of the war. She was assigned to the
5th Naval District
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and patrolled Chesapeake Bay until the end of the war.
''Apache'' returned to U.S. Coast Guard control when the Coast Guard was returned to the jurisdiction of the U.S.
Department of the Treasury on 28 August 1919. She remained active in the Coast Guard until 1937, then saw service with the
United States Army in the
Pacific during
World War II before being scrapped in 1950.
References
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United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Webcutters: ''Apache'' (1891); originally named ''Galveston''
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Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Baltimore
1891 ships