United States Coast Guard Service
Loaned to the United States Coast Guard on 24 January 1949, Humboldt was commissioned as the cutter USCGC Humboldt (WAVP-372) on 29 March 1949. Based at Boston, Massachusetts, and reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated 'WHEC-372 on 1 May 1966, her primary duty was to patrol ocean stations in the North Atlantic, providing weather reporting services and engaging in search-and-rescue and law-enforcement operations. She was transferred permanently to the Coast Guard on 26 September 1966.
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