U.S. Coast Guard Service
Yakutat was loaned to the United States Coast Guard on 31 August 1948, and was commissioned as the cutter USCGC Yakutat (WAVP-380). Redesignated WHEC-380 and permanently transferred to the Coast Guard in 1966, Yakutat spent her long Coast Guard career on weather-reporting, law-enforcement, and search-and-rescue duties while on patrol in ocean stations in the North Atlantic. She also served two tours of duty (in 1967–1968 and in 1970) in the Vietnam War.
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