Shipbucket

The small 51-ton class revenue cutters (built at New York) never carried a pivot gun. This has been reported and drawn for many years. However, the pivot gun was too large and expensive for the cutter service. The Treasury Department was frugal (down right cheap) and did not expend any funds other ...

I served aboard the USCGC Unimak (WHEC 379) former USS Unimak (AVP 31) from 1977 to 1980. We made a number of changes to her during the pre-commissioning shipyard availability. All the 40mm gun mounts and the crane had been removed years before. The fire control station was removed as was the MK52 ...