U.S. Coast Guard Cutters and Craft: 1946-1990 by Robert L. Scheina (1990-05-03) Hardcover

Good book! An informative concise book on post world war 2 coast guard cutters. If you want to learn more about some of the lesser known cg cutters this is the book to go to.

I was looking for patrol dates in the early sixties and for the most part got that. Some were missing which I do not believe was the authors fault but an accessability problem for that period.

This is a good book to own, as books about Coast Guard ships are kind of sparse, and even the Coast Guard itself is not that good about presenting its own records. I got by on a photocopy for years until I found it used on Amazon.It covers a lot of time (though now dated) which makes it worth having collected between two covers, but is mostly a list of the operational summaries of each ship. As these summaries are apparently original research (and appear to be the source of 99% of the material presented on the USCG website), this is a significant accomplishment that sets this book apart. It also goes into detail on the of the maintenance of the once essential but now OBE ocean stations, which makes this book a nice directed telescope to a bygone era.Technical information for each class is presented once at the top of each section, but if you're interested in the changes in configuration the cutters went through over their usually very long lives, this book does not contain it. If it does go into information on the individual ships, it is generally a single snapshot of the fit in one particular year. For example, Edisto and Westwind each had a single 5 inch gun in 1966, but If you want to know when they got them or when they beached them, this book won't tell you. To be fair, the Coast Guard itself scarcely seems to know this stuff. Just go to their historical website, and you'll see lots of undated photos sometimes including vague guesses about when they might have been taken. All the more reason for a book which addresses that hole. This isn't that book, but it's more than anything else out there, so worth having on that basis alone.

Just loved seeing the old cutters that had so much history

nice