On Loan To The United States Coast Guard
Coos Bay was loaned to the United States Coast Guard on 5 January 1949 and commissioned as USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376) on 4 May 1949. She was reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-376 on 1 May 1966. Throughout her Coast Guard career, she served in the North Atlantic, based at Portland, Maine. Her primary duty was to patrol ocean stations to collect weather data and conduct search-and-rescue and law-enforcement operations.
The Coast Guard decommissioned Coos Bay on 1 September 1966, and berthed her at Curtis Bay, Maryland. The Coast Guard returned her to the Navy on 2 September 1967.
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