Chincoteague, WHEC-375

Radio call sign: NBOZ

The Chincoteague was homeported in Norfolk, VA for the duration of her stay in the Coast Guard. She was used for law enforcement, ocean station, and search and rescue operations in the Atlantic Ocean. In December 1955, she pulled M/V Canadian Observer from danger of going aground off the south coast of Newfoundland. On 30 October 1956, the Chincoteague rescued 33 crewmen form the German M/V Helga Bolten in the North Atlantic by using two inflatable lifeboats during heavy seas and then stood by distressed vessels for seven days until they could be towed to the Azores by commercial tug. On 5 October 1969, she towed the disabled M/V Kenyon Victory 30 miles south of San Salvador Island until relieved by a commercial tug. After her transfer to South Vietnam, the Chincoteague was renamed Ly Thoung Kiet. She fled to the Philippines at the fall of South Vietnam, was renamed Andres Chincoteague was named for a bay on the coast of Maryland and Virginia.

Builder: Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, WA

Commissioned: 15 Apr 1943 (USN);

loaned to USCG 7 March 1949 7 Mar 1949 (USCG); permanently transferred to USCG 26 September 1966

Decommissioned: 21 Jun 1972; transferred to South Vietnam

PARTICULARS, AS OF 1965 Length: 310 9 1/2" oa; 300' 0" bp Navigation Draft: 12' 5" max Beam: 41’ max Displacement: 2,497 fl Main Engines: Fairbanks-Morse, direct reversing diesels SHP: 6,400 Performance, Maximum Sustained: 17.0 kts, 10,000 nautical mile range Performance, Economic: 11.5 kts, 15,000 nautical mile range Fuel Capacity: 166,430 Complement: 10 officers, 3 warrants, 136 men Armament: 1 x 5”/38 Mk 12, Mod 1; 1 x Mk 52 Mod 3 director; 1 x Mk 26 fire control radar; 1 x Mk 11 A/S projector; 2 x Mk 32 Mod 5 torpedo tubes;