The USCG 65' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the
United States Coast Guard
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for search and rescue, law enforcement,
aids-to-navigation work and light icebreaking. The tugs are capable of breaking of ice with propulsion ahead and of ice backing and ramming.
[USCGC ''Chock'' (WYTL-65602), Data Sheet (26 September 2012), U.S. Coast Guard] They were designed with steel hulls to replace the wooden-hulled tugs that had been in service since the 1940s and were built by Gibbs Gas Engine Company,
Jacksonville, Florida
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["Gibbs Gas Engine Company"' Small Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders List, Shipbuilding History.com] Barbour Boat Works of
New Bern, North Carolina;
["Barbour Boat Works", Small Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders List, Shipbuilding History.com] and Western Boat Builders Corporation,
Tacoma, Washington
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["Western Boat Builders Corp.", Small Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders List, Shipbuilding History.com] from 1961 to 1967. They were originally powered by a single 400 horsepower diesel engine, however several have been re-powered with 500 horsepower main drive engines since they were constructed.
["65-foot Small Harbor Tug (WYTL)", Assets: Aircraft, Boats, and Cutters, U.S. Coast Guard]
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Ships of the United States Coast Guard
Auxiliary tugboat classes