United States Coast Guard Career
Half Moon was refitted and loaned to the United States Coast Guard in September 1948. In Coast Guard service she became the cutter USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378), later WHEC-378. Based at Staten Island, New York, USCGC Half Moon served primarily on ocean station duty in the Atlantic Ocean, serving also as a search-and-rescue ship and in law enforcement operations. She eventually was reclassified as a High Endurance Cutter and redesignated WHEC-378 in 1966, and was transferred permanently to the Coast Guard later that year. She served for several months on a combat tour off Vietnam in 1967 during the Vietnam War.
USCGC Half Moon was decommissioned in July 1969 and was sold for scrap in May 1970.
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