On the 15th USS. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters& Craft of World War II. Bibb,1955. Bibb continued at anchor in Kerama Retto until 7 July 1945 when she proceeded to Buckner Bay, where she anchored remaining through the 16th. That afternoon she had an underwater sound contact and made an embarrassing depth charge attack 5,000 yards ahead of the convoy with no visible damage. The cutter Bibb was named for George Motier Bibb, a prominent lawyer and jurist in Kentucky. Early on the 30th and again on the 6th of May Bibb fired on enemy aircraft. Task Force 66 relieved course and began standing up the Straits of Gibraltar and on the 3rd entered Casablanca Harbor. At 1840 on 21 June Bibb sighted one Nakajima Ki-44 "Tojo" fighter aircraft and one Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" fighter aircraft closing rapidly at about 800 feet altitude. The convoy began break-off operations on the 7th. Washington, DC: U.S. Coast Guard, 1 March 1949. pp. The Bibb was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her participation in "Operation Sea Lords" from October to December 1968. On the 26th the Delaware section of the convoy departed under escort of Ingham and USS Threat (AM-124) and at 0935 the lead ships were ordered to follow Bibb to the swept channel of New York harbor. These included Pearl Harbor, Guam, Subic Bay, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Yokosuka. The Bibb returned on the 21st and proceeded to Buckner Bay, where she remained at anchor during the balance of July. Once in South Vietnamese waters, she operated under the Cruiser-Destroyer Group of the U.S. February 2023; S M T W T F S The occupants of the lifeboats were in excellent condition when brought aboard. On the 25th she proceeded to Argentia in company with USS SC-688 and USS SC-189. Radar: (1945) SK, SG-1; (1966) AN/SPS-29D, AN/SPA-52. Bibb is credited with destroying one Japanese kamikaze aircraft in action at Karema Retto. She passed through to canal and departed Balboa on the 23rd for Pearl Harbor. Sound contacts were attacked that day and the next and on the 16th four more destroyers of Task Group 21.3 joined the escort group. The next year, in June-July, she served on Ocean Station How and in July of 1950 she and her sister Treasury-class cutters had Mark 10 projectors installed. Enforces maritime and other laws pertaining to protection of life and property at sea, suppression of smuggling and illicit drug trafficking, and protection of the marine environment. The healthy sheer forward and the high slope in the deck in the wardrooms was known as the Hunnewell Hump. Commander (Constructor) F. G. Hunnewell, USCG, was the head of the Coast Guards Construction and Repair Department at that time. The convoy arrived at New York on the 30th and Bibb moored at Brooklyn Navy Yard with an availability period until 10 June 1944. In April of 1966 she served on Ocean Station Delta and on Ocean Station Charlie in August-September 1967. The torpedo struck in a hold occupied by Marines, which probably accounted for the relatively small number of Marines rescued. The next year, in June-July, she served on Ocean Station How and in July of 1950 she and her sister Treasury-class cutters had Mark 10 projectors installed. She underwent a major renovation at East Boston's Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in early 1975, including extensive repairs to her hull and machinery spaces. The cutter assumed its duties of escort commander of convoy ONSJ-110, with 13 ships, on the 7th, in company with Babbitt. Ten minutes later the second ship sank, stern first. On the 27th USS Chase (DE-158) departed for Gibraltar and on the 2nd the main convoy stood up the main channel through Gibraltar straits. ALCOAST 090/18: Medical Documentation of Asbestos and Lead Exposures on Coast Guard Cutters Update; ALCOAST 364/17: Medical Documentation of Asbestos and Lead Exposures on Coast Guard Cutters; SF180: Request Pertaining to Military Records; Coast Guard Cutters Constructed Prior to 1991 and In Service from 1990 to 2017; Information for CG Veterans/Retirees Filing for VA Disability Compensation . On March 2nd four merchant vessels detached for Gibraltar and Task Force 66 was relieved of escorting the convoy by a British task force. During November 1944 through 29 January 1945, When an enemy aircraft was sighted coming in from the northwest on 28 April 1945, The plane disappeared in a smoke screen. Six hours later while returning to the convoy, As raft after raft were brought alongside, On 25 February 1943, a convoy was formed with, At 2152 word was received that a vessel in the convoy had been torpedoed. The broken blower crankshaft of one of the merchant vessels in convoy was repaired on Bibb and transferred to it by breeches buoy. Four merchant ships were detached for Gibraltar and one joined just before the convoy changed course to stand through the Straits. The ship . Pin it. The rafts were of the doughnut type and, due to the height of the sea, it was rarely possible to see more than two or three rafts at a time. On the 9th Roselys sank a floating mine and later dropped one charge on a doubtful contact. On 1 May 1965 the Treasury class vessels were re-designated as High Endurance Cutters or WHEC. She returned to Kerama Retto, next morning and remained anchored there for the balance of June. At the end of World War II, each Secretary Class cutter was returned to her peace-time makeup. Nearby, a second Treasury-Class ship, the USCGC Duane (WPG-33) was also sunk as an artificial reef. On 2 November 1969, She began the year 1971 by serving on Ocean Station Bravo, where she served from 3 to 26 of January. This standardization saved moneyalways paramount in the Coast Guards considerationsand the cutters were built in U.S. Navy shipbuilding yards. Their primary task was to report meteorological information, which was used in weather forecasts for the burgeoning trans-Atlantic commercial air traffic as well as for surface vessels. Many of Bibb's crewmen leapt into the water to assist the nearly frozen survivors, and the cutter Ingham assisted. The Bibb began searching for survivors and lookouts sighted large quantities of debris, including a swamped lifeboat. She anchored in Palermo outer harbor, moving next morning to the breakwater. On the 13th, sixteen merchant vessels detached for Algiers while 23 merchant vessels joined from that port. The next day, the 11th, Bibb sighted a ship on the horizon and proceeded toward it. On the 24th she was underway out of the swept channel with Task Force 60, consisting of six Coast Guard-manned destroyer escorts and six Navy destroyer escorts, the escort oiler USS Mattaponi (AO-41) and two French escorts, escorting convoy UGS-46 to North African ports. Ten minutes later a kawasaki Ki-61 "Tony" fighter aircraft was sighted at about 5,000 yards, and Bibb commenced firing, but the firing was checked as the bearing became foul. USCGC SPENCER (WMEC 905) Commanding Officer, CDR Corey M. Kerns. She anchored at Kerama Retto, Okinawa on 23 April. At 0330 various escorts reported bandit planes closing over the convoy. One more attempt was made with a pulling boat that night, but again the rough seas and darkness prevented their success and captains Cronk and Martin agreed to wait until the next morning to save the remaining passengers and crew. Although a leader of the successful War Hawk faction in Congress, Bibb resigned from the Senate in 1814, before the end of the War of 1812, and returned to Kentucky. On the 28th four merchant vessels and one destroyer detached, the vessels to be escorted to Oran by a British task force. An hour later Bibb was ordered to detach from the convoy and return to Iceland, with SS Toltec. Later again that month and into August she seized the fishing vessel Shanti after the crew of the fishing vessel threw approximately three tons of marijuana overboard. It was a combination ocean station patrol and search and rescue operation that brought Bibb and her crew international recognition when, while operating on Ocean Station Charlie on 14 October 1947, the transoceanic airliner Bermuda Sky Queen was forced to make a landing during a gale with high winds and in rough seas when the flying boat ran low on fuel. Notable events involving Bibb include: 7 Feb 1943 USCGC Bibb picks up 202 survivors from the American troop transport Henry R. Mallory and 33 survivors from the Greek merchant Kalliopi that were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-402 in convoy SC-118 about 600 nautical miles south-southwest of Iceland. Anti-submarine weaponry was added in mid-1941 and under Executive Order of 11 September 1941, Twice during the next two hours, first two and then one ship in the convoy fired into the water, and one of the escorts, HMS, Standing out of Reykjavik harbor on 21 September 1942, Within two hours after being brought aboard, all survivors had been fed, showered, wrapped in blankets and placed on mattresses on the mess deck and in the engineer's passageway. Bibb served in the United States Senate from 1811 to 1814 and from 1829 to 1835. In May-June 1958 she served on Ocean Station Echo and in July-August 1958 it was back to Ocean Station Delta. Four hours later Orbis was underway to rejoin. Later that year she sailed back to Ocean Station Echo, where she steamed from 10 June to 4 July. After one successful trip, the gig's engine broke down and the Coast Guardsmen once again launched a pulling boat. . Within two hours after being brought aboard, all survivors had been fed, showered, wrapped in blankets and placed on mattresses on the mess deck and in the engineer's passageway. 1946: 1 x 5"/38 (single); 1 x 40mm;/60 (twin); 2 x 20mm/80 (single); 1 x Hedgehog. At noon two boats were lowered and they began bringing 61 survivors aboard, including one naval officer and 23 enlisted men. Taking on ammunition at the Navy Yard until the 4th of February, when she departed for Hampton Roads, Virginia. Vessels joined the convoy at Gibraltar on the 10th. The ship fought in the Battle of the Atlantic serving as a convoy escort. Men felt it the minute he took command and there was not a man on the ship who would not go the extra mile for the old man. On the 14th Bibb obtained two high frequency direction finder bearings and began running them down. Ten hours later word was received from a ship in the convoy that a torpedo had crossed her bow and five hours later Bibb, while sweeping 15 miles astern of the convoy, sighted a submarine fully surfaced about 14 miles away. The healthy sheer forward and the high slope in the deck in the wardrooms was known as the "Hunnewell Hump." On the morning of 6 May 1945, at 0846, SOPA warned that bogeys as well as many friendly planes were within four miles. The Task Force was escorting convoy UGS-33, consisting of 78 merchant vessels to North African ports and also USS Brant (ARS-32) and six LCIs to the Azores. This designation indicated a multi-mission ship able to operate at sea for 30-45 days without support and, On three patrols she participated in amphibious assaults on Phu Quoc Island. The Bibb was again underway on 31 August 1942 screening the port bow of the eastbound trans-Atlantic convoy SC-97. Bibb remained anchored in Reykjavik Harbor, Iceland until 19 October 1942, and then got underway escorting a convoy of five ships westward. On the 13th Task Group 21.13 joined, departing the next day. Five minutes later the ship on which the explosion had occurred sank, bow first. She then sailed to Mayport, Florida, for a week of training at the Navy Fleet Training Center. On 7 February 1943, the, Rescue operations continued throughout forenoon, 202 survivors being taken from three lifeboats and numerous rafts. Later in the day she took station "one" in convoy UGS-39 forming off Norfolk swept chanced as flagship of Task Force 60, with six Coast Guard-manned, and six Navy-manned destroyer escorts. The Bibb remained at anchor in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, during August, 1945, as flagship for Commander, Mine Craft, Pacific Fleet. The cutter reported to the escort commander on the 20th and was assigned a station. V172 (1937-1938) Bibb then returned to Coast Guard control after she was converted back to her cutter configuration at the Navy Yard in Charleston. )Propulsion: 2 x Westinghouse double-reduction geared turbines; 2 x Babcock & Wilcox sectional express, air-encased, 400 psi, 200 superheatSHP: 5,250 (total)Maximum Speed: 19.5 knotsCruising: 13.0 knots, 7,000 mile rangeComplement: 1937: 12 officers, 4 warrants, 107 enlisted;1941: 16 officers, 5 warrants, 202 enlisted;1966: 10 officers, 3 warrants, 133 enlisted. At 0336 escorts on the convoy's port side began firing and two minutes later escorts on the starboard side began to open fire. The following year brought a number of notable seizures for drug and fisheries charges. Departing Guantanamo on the 23rd she arrived at Norfolk on the 26 January 1944. It turned out to be the stern of a torpedoed tanker, with no signs of life on board, though one boat and one raft remained on board. She received credit for the destruction of one Japanese aircraft. In the words of one naval historian, John M. Waters, Jr., they were truly their nations maritime workhorses. Waters continued: the 327s battled, through the Bloody Winter of 1942-43 in the North Atlanticfighting off German U-boats and rescuing survivors from torpedoed convoy ships. There she served as the flagship for Commander, Mine Craft, Pacific Fleet. One merchant vessel detached for the Azores. An hour later a Netherlands war vessel joined the task force as an anti-aircraft ship. Electronics:HF/DF: (1943)Radar: (1945) SK, SG-1; (1966) AN/SPS-29D, AN/SPA-52.Fire Control Radar: (1945) Mk-26; (1966) Mk-26 MOD 4Sonar: (1945) QC series; (1966) SQS-11. An hour later the Iceland bound section of the convoy departed the main convoy. Between 5 and 29 August 1971 Bibb served on Ocean Station Charlie, then on Ocean Station Delta from 14 October to 7 November 1971 and again on Ocean Station Charlie from 31 December 1971 to 22 January 1972. In September of 1948 Bibb steamed at full speed into forty foot seas to save 40 men and a dog from the sinking Portuguese fishing schooner Gaspar some 300 miles off Newfoundland. She sailed to Ocean Station Charlie again in April of 1960 and in June and July of 1960 she served on Ocean Station Echo. The target was taken under fire by vessels in the anchorage but apparently escaped, damaged, and disappeared flying north toward Geruma Shima. On the 16th Bibb attacked a doubtful sound contact with three starboard throwers without results. On three patrols she participated in amphibious assaults on Phu Quoc Island. The same could be said of the other Secretary Class cutters, their officers, and their crews. >27,500 (10 days for 50 man crew using 50 gpd : Maximum Range: 4,000 NM @ 12 kts 9,000 NM @ 9 kts : Stopping Distance < 1,000 feet : Circumnavigate Beset 1000' Vessel in Heavy Ice (32" solid level) Yes - within 12 minutes : Sewage Treatment, Trash, & Hazmat Storage : Hold for 10 days (based on 50 person crew) All grey water, all black water . Bibb remained at South Boston Navy Yard until 16 January 1943, and then stood out of Boston Harbor for Casco Bay, Maine, where on the 18th she went into battle practice with the cutter Comanche (WPG 76), making practice runs and simulated attacks on a U. S. submarine. The USCGC Bibb (WPG-31) was a 327-foot (100m) Secretary-Class (also known as "Treasury Class") Coast Guard ship commissioned in 1936. The Vigilant capsized and sank one hour later. On the 22nd, two merchant vessels joined from Bone, Algeria. Soon after midnight on the 10th two more vessels in the convoy were torpedoed. She first underwent an equipment test by the Naval Underwater Systems Center in Long Island Sound. On August 6th Bibb expended 11 depth charges on a sound contact which was later evaluated as non-submarine. Bibb saw service in World War II. Other duties besides conducting weather patrols included search and rescue standby and other patrols for the First Coast Guard District, making reserve training cruises, and occasional search and rescue details at Bermuda and Argentia. An hour later Spencer sighted a submarine dead ahead on the surface at about 2,000 yards and she proceeded to attack. Anti-submarine weaponry was added in mid-1941 and under Executive Order of 11 September 1941, Bibb became eligible for transfer to the Navy by agreement between the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Coast Guard. The nearby cutter was able to repel the attack with five-inch gunfire while coming close inshore in relatively shallow water to retrieve her Medical Civil Action Program team. On the 21st Portent stood by to cover one of the convoy vessels that had steering trouble. Eight merchant vessels were detached for Gibraltar on the 15th. The Bibb then set a course for Boston and moored at Pier 3, South Boston on the 15th. . Also, on one of these occasions a working party laden with paint and brushes accompanied the medical team and assisted the villagers in painting a church. Radio Call Sign: NRDBCost: $2,468,460.00Keel Laid: 15 August 1935Launched: 14 January 1937Commissioned: 10 March 1937Decommissioned: 30 September 1985Disposition: Sunk as an artificial reef off the Florida Keys on 28 November 1987Builder: Charleston Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PADisplacement: 2,350 (1936)Length: 327 0Beam: 41 0Draft: 12 6 (max. Another time a medical team was sent ashore to the Village of Phu Tho, 70 miles south southeast of Danang. The three left onboard Vigilant had to abandon their efforts and they took to a second life raft and Bibb's small boat again set out and successfully rescued them. Her propelling plant consisted of twin propellers powered by geared turbines supplied with steam from oil fired boilers. From 1946 to 1973, Bibb was stationed at Boston. On the 28 May 37 ships detached for Hampton Roads. Aircraft: Curtiss SOC-4, USCG No. Well done.". The commander of Task Force 66 was in the Bibb, while ComCortDiv 45, consisted of six Coast Guard-manned destroyer escorts and one Navy-manned destroyer escort. They rejoined the convoy on the 28th. During these visits, Dr. John Bulette, the on-board medical officer assigned to, She returned to Boston, where she was home-ported until October of 1973. Mooring at Norfolk on the 11th three more destroyers reported to the task force and they departed the same day to escort convoy UGS-12 to North Africa ports. On the 13th she stood down Chesapeake Bay swept channel and maneuvered while awaiting the formation of the convoy. The pulling boat successfully rescued the remaining passengers and crew and the captain's gig finally got its engine going again and both boats were then brought back aboard Bibb. She participated in refresher training under the Fleet Training Group at Guantanamo Bay every two years to maintain her military readiness. Then she began firing on an apparent target on the port beam, but was stopped a minute later because the target could be neither seen nor heard. At the end of World War II, each Secretary Class cutter was returned to her peace-time makeup. The Bibb also visited many foreign ports on her deployment, many of which she had sailed into during World War II. At 0946 she set a course to rendezvous with convoy SC-118. Then she increased to full speed and dropped a full pattern of depth charges. The ship was 327 feet in length, with a draft of 12 and a half feet. The passage across the Atlantic continued without incident. Bibb Cutter File, US Coast Guard Historian's Office. In the U.S. Navy, asbestos was considered so important that the U.S. government once mandated its use in shipbuilding. Lookouts aboard the Bibb sighted one of the Mallorys lifeboats and, disobeying an order to return to the convoy, the Bibbs commanding officer, CDR Roy Raney, ordered his cutter to begin rescuing survivors. With the waves cresting at 30 feet and the cutter rolling 30 to 35 degrees, getting the passengers and crew of the Bermuda Sky Queen aboard Bibb proved to be a tremendous challenge. A distress message from the disabled SS Agenor gave the Bibb an opportunity to resume its customary peace-time job of search and rescue. Standing out from Boston, after repairs, Bibb received a message from the cutter Modoc (WPG-46) on 13 April that a plane had reported a periscope in her vicinity. Grumman JF-2, USCG No. Bibb was named for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (July 4, 1844 March 7, 1845) George M. Bibb. After the conversion was completed, she was ordered to Boston, which remained her home port through October of 1973. The next day, after an airplane had dropped a charge directly ahead, Bibb fired a Hedgehog barrage of depth charges on a sound contact. CG-71) was built at the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina, and was launched in 1937. These operations called for off-shore patrols of up to three weeks. A few minutes later a vessel in the convoy fired a machine gun at a reported visual contact. Soon afterwards she got underway to join Trillium and relieved her of escort of SS Empire Bunting. Then she proceeded towards Iceland and arrived at Reykjavik on the afternoon of the 5th. All came in at low altitude and seemed to approach a target from the stern, going into a steep glide shout 800 yards on the quarter of their target. Many of them were suffering from exposure and edema, but after treatment almost all recovered. Many had edema of the hands, which resulted, it is believed, from the tight fit these rubber suits have about the wrist. In August, 1949 she served on Ocean Station Dog. Dedicated also to the Bibb Shipmates Assc. Next day six merchant vessels detached for Casablanca while eight joined. The Bibb closed eastbound trans-Atlantic convoy SC-101 on 30 September 1942, screening the seven ship Iceland bound sector SCL-101 which was breaking off and forming. On the 21st a doctor from Babbitt was transferred to Bibb to treat that ship's doctor who had been stricken with pneumonia. On the 13th she stood down the Norfolk swept channel and than reversed courses and stood up to the Naval Operating Bases for imperative repairs. On 2 September 1944, Bibb stood down Chesapeake Bay channel and departed for North African ports as flagship of Task Force 60, escorting, convoy UGS-53. Complement: 1937: 12 officers, 4 warrants, 107 enlisted; The Bibb made a full pattern attack on a sound contact at 0440 and ten hours later dropped three full patterns on three separate contacts. 4 of us did the Florida Keys Wreck Trek and the Bibb was our first dive. The Bibb departed for gunnery exercises on 20 July 1944 and, having completed these, got underway to take station one of Task Force 60, escorting convoy GUS-46. The 327-foot cutters were designed to meet changing missions of the service as it emerged from the Prohibition era. On the 14th several high frequency direction finder bearings were reported and on the 19th the convoy made an emergency turn on a contact which later proved to be non-submarine. During these visits, Dr. John Bulette, the on-board medical officer assigned to Bibb by the U.S. Public Health Service, treated over 220 persons. Two merchant ships joined on the 21st; six detached and six joined on the 22nd; and nine detached and seven joined on the 23rd. On 2 November 1969 Bibb towed to safety the disabled merchant vessel SS Caravan, which was located 150 miles southeast of Cape Fear. She departed Manzanillo on the 3rd and reached Pearl Harbor on the 11th. Another Val, taken under fire by naval units, westward of Geruma Shim was brought down. Most recently, these ships-that-wouldnt-die have done duty in fisheries patrol and drug interdiction. On the 30th, two merchant ships detached and 10 joined from Algiers. On the next morning, 1 September 1942 at 1110, Bibb made a sound contact and five minutes later dropped a barrage of six small and two large depth charges. After providing her crew of seven with provisions, Bibb towed Mary J to Mathew Town, Great Inagua Island. On the 14th she stood out of Norfolk preparatory to acting as escort commander of convoy UGS-18 en route to North African and Mediterranean ports. The ship was 327 feet in length, with a draft of 12 and a half feet. On the 27th Bibb, in company with Ingham, searched for survivors of the torpedoed SS Athan Sultan, but being unable to sight anything, even though both vessels had a radar signal which was about 2 to 8 miles distant, they fired three star-shells. One of the Inghams crew described the scene, a dreadfully common one along the North Atlantic that year: I never saw anything like it, wood all over the place and bodies in life jackets never saw so many dead fellows in my whole life. The Iceland convoy was formed by 0900 and got underway, Bibb screening the rear. The Ingham and two merchant vessels were missing. 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