USCGC Walnut (WLM-252)

USCGC Walnut (WLM-252)

USCGC Walnut underway, 1981
History
United States
Name	Walnut
Namesake	Walnut
Operator	United States Lighthouse Service United States Coast Guard
Builder	Moore Dry Dock Company Oakland, California
Commissioned	8 July 1939
Decommissioned	1 July 1982
Fate	Transferred to Honduras
Honduras
Name	Yojoa
Operator	Honduran Navy
Acquired	1982
Out of service	1998
Identification	FNH–252
Fate	Wrecked during Hurricane Mitch, 1998
General characteristics
Type	General, Lighthouse tender WAGL; Coastal Buoy tender, WLM
Displacement	885 tons.
Length	174 ft 8+1⁄2 in (53.251 m)
Draft	11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Ice class	Reinforced bow and stern. Ice-belt at water-line, notched forefoot.
Installed power	Original: 2 triple-expansion steam, horizontal engines; 2 oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox watertube boilers Diesel conversion: (1951) 2 four-cylinder Fairbanks-Morse 38D 8-1/8 2 Detroit Diesel 100kW generators
Propulsion	Twin screws 1,000 shp (750 kW) (steam) 1,350 shp (1,010 kW) (diesel)
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range	2,000 mi (3,200 km)
Complement	4 officers, 1 warrant officer, 69 enlisted (1945)
Crew	74 (1945).
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: SO-1 (1945); CS (1966). Sonar: WEA-2 (1945); UNQ-1 (1966)
Armament	1 × 3-inch gun 2 × 20mm/80 single-mount cannons M2 Browning machine gun 2 × depth charge tracks (1945)
Notes	D

The USCGC Walnut (WLM-252) was a steel-hulled, steam-powered twin-screw Hollyhock-class tender built for the Lighthouse Service in 1939 at Oakland, California. With the transfer of the Lighthouse Service to the Coast Guard in June, 1939, she was commissioned as a Coast Guard cutter on 8 July 1939.