United States Coast Guard Service
The Navy loaned Unimak to the United States Coast Guard on 14 September 1948 and she was commissioned as Coast Guard cutter USCGC Unimak (WAVP-379) in 1949. She was reclassified as a high endurance cutter and reclassified as WHEC-379 in 1966, and the Navy permanently transferred her to the Coast Guard on 26 September 1966. During her first period in commission (1949-1975), she was stationed successively at Boston, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; and Yorktown, Virginia, and was used to patrol ocean stations, providing weather reports and data, conducting law-enforcement and search-and-rescue operations, and providing communications assistance to ships and aircraft in the North Atlantic. She also conducted United States Coast Guard Reserve training cruises. She was redesignated WTR-379 in 1969. She was decommissioned in 1975, but recommissioned in 1977, again designated WHEC-379, and stationed at New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was used primarily for fishing patrol, but also conducted law enforcement and search and rescue operations, during her second period in commission.
Unimak was decommissioned and transferred to the Navy in April 1988, and was sunk as an artificial reef off the Virginia coast.
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