The USRC ''Snohomish'' was a seagoing tug built at the specific direction of Congress by
Pusey & Jones
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Shipbuilding was its primary focus from 1853 until the end of World War II, when the comp ...
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Wilmington, Delaware
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for service on the Pacific Northwest coast. She was fitted with latest lifesaving and property saving equipment available at the time of her construction and originally cost $189,000.
[Canney, p 66]
She was commissioned by the
United States Revenue Cutter Service
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on 15 November 1908 and arrived at her homeport of
Neah Bay, Washington
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by way of passage around
Cape Horn
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in 1909.
''Snohomish'' was a regular part of the Bering Sea Patrol and enforced international sealing regulations.
Her duties included search and rescue, law enforcement, fisheries patrol, mail delivery to light ships and remote stations, patrolling regattas, and towing disabled vessels.
She served her entire career in the Pacific Northwest and was decommissioned and sold 1 December 1934.
See also
The
Coast Guard
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commissioned a second vessel, the
USCGC ''Snohomish'' (WYTM-98) in 1944.
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