United States Coast Guard Career
In Coast Guard service, Wachapreague was renamed USCGC McCulloch in honor of the financier Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895) who served as Secretary of the Treasury for Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Chester A. Arthur, reclassified as a Coast Guard seaplane tender, and designated WAVP-386. McCulloch initially operated out of Boston, and later into the 1970s out of Wilmington, North Carolina, patrolling ocean stations in the North Atlantic Ocean. Spending an average of 21 days per month at sea, McCulloch patrolled the direct line of air routes to Europe, relayed weather data to the United States Weather Bureau, maintained an air-sea rescue station for overseas civilian and military flights, and engaged in law-enforcement activities. Reclassified as a High Endurance Cutter and redesignated WHEC-386 in 1966, McCulloch remained engaged in these duties until more modern techniques of weather reporting and data gathering came into use and thus made the seagoing weather ships obsolete.
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