United States Coast Guard Service
After more than two years of inactivity, Barataria was loaned to the United States Coast Guard on 17 September 1948. She became the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381). Later reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-381, Barataria was based at Portland, Maine, for most of her Coast Guard career. Her primary duty was to patrol ocean stations in the North Atlantic Ocean, reporting weather data and engaging in search-and-rescue and law-enforcement operations.
Barataria was stricken from the Navy List on 26 September 1966 and transferred outright to the Coast Guard on the same day. She served a tour in the Vietnam War in 1967-1968, then served on ocean stations in the Pacific Ocean.
The Coast Guard decommissioned Barataria in August 1969 and sold her for scrap in either September or October 1970 to N. W. Kennedy of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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