USCGC ''Pontchartrain'' was a belonging to the
United States Coast Guard
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launched on 16 June 1928 and commissioned on 13 October 1928 .
After 13 years of service in the
Coast Guard
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, she was transferred to the
Royal Navy
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as part of the
Lend-Lease Act
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. She was sunk in 1942 off
Oran Harbor.
Career
US Coast Guard - Pontchartrain
After commissioning in November 1928, ''Pontchartrain'' was
homeported in
Norfolk, Virginia and assigned to the
Bering Sea Patrol The United States Coast Guard is the coastal defense, search and rescue, and maritime law enforcement branch of the United States Armed Forces and is one of the country's eight uniformed services. It carries out three basic roles, which are furth ...
.
On 4 December 1940 ''Pontchartrain'' rescued the entire crew of the 70 foot tugboat ''Edwin Duke'' which was in danger of sinking in a storm south of
Long Island.
Royal Navy - ''Hartland''
As part of the
Lend-Lease Act
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ...
she was transferred to the
Royal Navy
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where she was renamed HMS ''Hartland'' (Y00) and commissioned on 30 April 1941.
In November 1942, while taking part in
Operation Reservist
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Background
The ...
carrying American troops to seize the harbour of
Oran, Algiers she was sunk by gunfire from the French destroyer ''
Typhon
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'' within the Oran Harbor taking 34 crew members with her.
See also
*
List of United States Coast Guard cutters
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References
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Lake-class cutters
Banff-class sloops
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
World War II sloops of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in November 1942
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea