Name USCGC Forsythia Commissioned 15 February 1943 Beam 26 ft (7.9 m) Weight 233.7 tons Builder Avondale Shipyard | Namesake Forsythia Decommissioned 12 August 1977 Length 35 m Displacement 208,700 kg | |
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Class and type Sycamore-class buoy tender | ||
USCGC Forsythia (WAGL-63/WLR-63), was a 114-foot, 230-ton buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. It was one of three such vessels (her sisters were the Dogwood (WAGL-259) and Sycamore (WAGL-268)) built to replace the stern paddlewheel steamers that the Coast Guard decided were too expensive to maintain. She was built by Avondale Marine Ways of Westwego, Louisiana, and entered service in 1943. She was stationed at Sewickley, Pennsylvania until 1963, and then Memphis, Tennessee, until she was decommissioned in 1977.
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