United States Coast Guard Career
Renamed USCGC Gresham and redesignated WAVP-387, the ship served with the Coast Guard until 1973. Late reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-387), her primary duty was to patrol ocean stations, reporting weather data and engaging in search-and-rescue and law-enforcement operations. In 1967, with the formation of Coast Guard Squadron 3, Gresham operated in conjunction with U.S. Navy forces in Operation Market Time, the interdiction of communist coastal arms and munitions traffic along the coastline of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Later reclassified as a meteorological cutter and redesignated WAGW-387, Gresham was decommissioned on 25 April 1973 and turned over to the Maritime Administration on 21 May 1973 for layup in the James River in Virginia. She was sold for scrapping on 25 October 1973 to B. V. Intershitra of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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