USCG Jackson WSC-142

Type:
Cutter
Class:
Active
Builder:
American Brown Boveri
Electric Corp.
Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Hull Number:
WSC-142
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
March 14, 1927
Keel Laid:
N/A
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
February 14, 1927
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
Sunk Sept. 14, 1944 in hurricane.

Location: North Atlantic, 12 miles southeast of Nags Head, North Carolina.
(35.53N-75.26W)

21 men lost, 20 survivors picked up two days later.
(Roll of Honor)


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