United States Coast Guard Service
The U.S. Navy loaned Cook Inlet to the United States Coast Guard on 20 September 1948, and transferred her permanently to the Coast Guard on 26 September 1966. She was commissioned as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384) on 15 January 1949 and was redesignated a high endurance cutter and reclassified as WHEC-384 on 1 May 1966. Throughout her Coast Guard career of almost 23 years, her home port was Portland, Maine, from which she patrolled ocean stations in the North Atlantic, reporting weather data and conducting law-enforcement and search-and-rescue operations. She also served in the Vietnam War for several months in 1971.
The Coast Guard decommissioned Cook Inlet on 27 December 1971.
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