USCGC Mallow underway in Honolulu Harbor
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Mallow |
Namesake | Mallow plant |
Builder | Zenith Dredge Corporation |
Laid down | 10 October 1943 |
Launched | 9 December 1943 |
Commissioned | 6 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 15 May 1997 |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Iris-class buoy tender |
Displacement | 935 long tons (950 t) |
Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 47 ft 1 in (14.35 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Propulsion | 1 × electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators driven by 2 Cooper Bessemer-type GND-8, 4-cycle diesels; single screw |
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The USCGC Mallow (WLB-396) was a Iris-class buoy tender belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 9 December 1943 and commissioned on 6 June 1944.[1]