USCGC Itasca (1929)
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USCGC Itasca (1929). | |
| Career (United States) | 100x35px |
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| Name: | USCGC Itasca |
| Namesake: | Lake Itasca |
| Builder: | General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, Alameda, California |
| Launched: | 16 November 1929 |
| Commissioned: | 12 July 1930 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 May 1941 |
| Fate: | transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease |
| Ship returned: | 23 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 28 September 1950 |
| Fate: | sold for scrap, 4 October 1950 |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
| Name: | HMS Gorleston |
| Namesake: | Gorleston |
| Commissioned: | 30 May 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 April 1946 |
| Fate: | returned to U.S. Coast Guard |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Banff class sloop |
| Displacement: | 2,075 long tons (2,108 t) |
| Length: | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × General Electric turbine-driven 3,350 shp (2,500 kW) electric motor, 2 boilers |
| Speed: |
14.8 kn (27.4 km/h; 17.0 mph) cruising 17.5 kn (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) maximum |
| Complement: | 97 (in 1940) |
| Armament: |
as Gorleston
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The USCGC Itasca was a 250 ft (76 m) Lakes class cutter of the United States Coast Guard launched on 16 November 1929 and commissioned 12 July 1930. The ship was decommissioned in 1941 on lend lease to the United Kingdom where she received a name change, becoming HMS Gorleston (pennant Y92) and was returned to the United States in 1946. The ship was finally sold for scrap in 1950.[1]
Itasca is most famous as the "picket ship" that would provide air navigation and radio links for Amelia Earhart when she made her 1937 flight around the world. Itasca attempted to keep in radio contact with her, however, they couldn't manage to keep contact as Earhart's radio equipment had limited range.
See also
- Air navigation
- Fred Noonan
- List of United States Coast Guard cutters
- Radio navigation
- S meter / Signal strength
References
- Notes
- ↑ "Itasca". http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Itasca_1930.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
- Bibliography
- Long, Elgen M. and Marie K. Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-684-86005-8.
- Lovell, Mary S. The Sound of Wings. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. ISBN 0-312-03431-8.
- Pellegrino, Anne Holtgren. World Flight: The Amelia Trail. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-8138-1760-9.
- The Radio Amateur's Handbook. West Hartford, Connecticut: American Radio Relay League, 1945. No ISBN.
- Safford, Laurance F. with Warren, Cameron A. and Payne, Robert R. Earhart's Flight into Yesterday: The Facts Without the Fiction, McLean, Virginia: Paladwr Press, 2003. ISBN 1-88896-220-8.
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