CG 36500
 The boat in the port of Orleans
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Under the name Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500 is lifeboat CG 36500 of the Coast Guard of the United States in the National Register of Historic Places entered. It was in use from 1946 to 1968 and has been a museum ship in the port of Orleans in the state of Massachusetts in the United States since 1981 .
description
The 36 ft (11 m ) long boat was built in 1946 at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay , Maryland and was stationed in Chatham after it was commissioned until it was retired in 1968 . The CG 36500 is one of the few surviving boats in its class that is still seaworthy and could still perform its original function today.
It has a total weight of 19,600 lb (8,890.4 kg ), among other things, a ballast keel and a skeg made of solid bronze weighing 2,000 lb (907.2 kg). At a cruising speed of 8 knots, the boat has a range of 200 mi (321.9 km ). Constructed from American white oak , the keel of the boat is reinforced with 8 in (203.2 mm ) long rivets with a diameter of 0.5 in (12.7 mm) made of silicon bronze. The hull is clad with a 1.6 mm thick layer of Monel to protect against ice floes , and the stern of the boat is made of cast bronze.
In total, almost 90% of the original parts of the boat have been preserved - the other ships registered in the NRHP, also made of wood, have 5% to 95% original parts.
In 1968 the boat was decommissioned and moved to the Cape Cod National Seashore as an exhibit at a National Park Service naval museum . In 1981 it was acquired by the Orleans Historical Society, who extensively restored it and now operates it as a floating museum in memory of the lifeguards of Cape Cod . The boat today matches or surpasses the characteristics that it exhibited during its active days.
Historical meaning
The CG 36500 is an important step in the development of lifeboats, the origins of which go back to the 18th century: In 1784 the Englishman Lionel Lukin first built a 20 ft (6.1 m) long Norwegian yawl into a self-righting, unsinkable boat around what is widely considered to be the beginning of lifeboat construction. They were first used in the United States in 1851, which later became the United States Life-Saving Service.
In 1899 the life-saving station on Lake Superior in Marquette (Michigan) motorized a lifeboat with a gas engine for the first time , and in 1908 the first 11 m boats in the entire USA were equipped with this technology. Despite the increasingly powerful engines, most lifeboats still had sails and oars. In 1915, the United States Life-Saving Service became the United States Coast Guard .
The CG 36500 is a copy of a model that was built from 1937 to 1956 with an edition of 138 units (construction numbers CG 36416 to CG 36554) and was in service in almost every station of the US Coast Guard in the middle of the 20th century. It was not until 1963 that this type of ship was gradually replaced by a steel successor model with a length of 44 ft (13.4 m) and two diesel engines. Since 1991 the Coast Guard has been replacing these with modern 47 ft (14.3 m) long aluminum boats.
CG 36500 achieved particular national and partly international fame for its role in rescuing the shipwrecked of the T2 tanker SS Pendleton off Chatham in 1952, when the lifeboat's crew committed their lives during a Nor'easter 32 crew members in two parts broken tanker, although the lifeboat was only designed for 12 people. Only one crew member of the tanker could not be rescued. The rescue operation took place in heavy snowfall, winds of 70 kn (≈ 12 Bft ) and waves up to 60 ft (18.3 m) high. The only navigation device at that time consisted of a compass, which, however, went overboard shortly after departure. The crew received the Coast Guard's Lifesaving Medal in gold for their selfless commitment . Because of this historic act, the boat is still a welcome guest at maritime events in southern New England and "a legend in the history of the United States Coast Guard".
Others
The Rescue of the Shipwrecked Pendleton was filmed in 2016 under the title The Finest Hours .
See also
literature
- Kennedy, Peter B .; Ryder, Richard G .; Loparto, Leonard W .; Friedberg, Betsy: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. ( PDF ) National Park Service , April 2005, accessed on February 14, 2016 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.
- ↑ a b cf. Kennedy et al., P. 5.
- ↑ a b cf. Kennedy et al., P. 8.
- ↑ cf. Kennedy et al., P. 10.
- ↑ a b cf. Kennedy et al., P. 11.
- ↑ cf. Kennedy et al., P. 12.
- ↑ The Finest Hours in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 47 ′ 58 " N , 70 ° 0 ′ 32" W.