USCGC Reliance (WSC-150)

USCGC Reliance (WSC-150) was a 125-foot (38 m) Active-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard.[1]

Sister ship USCGC General Greene
History
United States
Name: USCGC Reliance
Builder: American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., Camden, New Jersey
Launched: 4 April 1927
Commissioned: 26 April 1927
Decommissioned: 11 March 1968
Out of service: 8 August 1947
Identification: WSC-150
Fate: Sold for scrap, 16 June 1948
General characteristics
Class and type: Active-class patrol boat
Displacement: 232 tons
Length: 125 ft (38.1 m)
Beam: 23.5 ft (7.2 m)
Draft: 7.5 ft (2.3 m)
Propulsion: 2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp (220 kW) engines
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range: 2,500 miles at 13 kn
Armament: 1 x 3"/27 caliber gun

She served from 1927 to 1948.[1][2]

In a 2014 interview, 94-year-old veteran Melvin Bell described serving on Reliance in 1939.[3] He said he had good shipmates, good food, but that vessels like Reliance had limited supplies of fresh water.

USCGC Reliance inspected the French Frigate Shoals in March 1936.[4]

References
  1. "Reliance II (WSC-150)". US Navy. 25 September 2005. Retrieved 8 November 2019. Reliance, built for the Coast Guard as an Active-class patrol boat by American Brown Boveri Electrical Corp., Camden, N.J., launched 4 April 1927 and commissioned 26 April at Camden.
  2. Coast Guard Bulletin. United States Coast Guard. 1945. p. 455. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  3. C. Douglas Kroll (25 March 2014). "Interview of ETCM Melvin Kealoha Bell, USCG (Retired)" (PDF). US Coast Guard. Retrieved 8 November 2019. We didn’t have all the facilities like the large ships did. All the electrical equipment ran off of batteries. I had to make sure our batteries were always fully charged. We didn’t make much fresh water so we couldn’t take a shower very often.
  4. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS, NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Page 42
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