She sailed to Ocean Station Charlie again in April of 1960 and in June and July of 1960 she served on Ocean Station Echo. USCGC Bibb (WHEC-31) - Steel Hip Flask - WI3. At the same time eight merchant vessels under escort of PC vessels were detached for Casablanca, making the total number of ships in the convoy 82, plus the oiler. Made in 1940, this U.S. Coast Guard film shows the Cadet Cruise made by the USCG's class of 1940. On the 16th she got underway in the van of a number of Navy craft who stood out of Buckner Bay and proceeded independently in accordance with the typhoon plan. That afternoon Bibb attacked a sound contact with a full nine-charge pattern and some heavy oil and light bits of debris resulted. Soon afterwards she got underway to join Trillium and relieved her of escort of SS Empire Bunting. The Mallory had been torpedoed at 0600. The plane disappeared in a smoke screen. On the 17th she was underway to report to the escort commander of convoy HX-226. A U.S. Army liaison officer boarded, In another significant action on 13 September 1968, In addition to her patrol duties this cutter also performed civic action functions in the form of medical assistance and search and rescue. All hands can be justifiably proud of this accomplishment and of the fact that they have contributed significantly to the mission of the Seventh Fleet and to the United States efforts in Southeast Asia. These men had been some 60 hours in rough seas in an open boat and on rafts and their condition was much better than would be expected. The Bibb proceeded to the area and screened SS Melrose Abbey, the convoy's appointed rescue ship, as she picked up survivors. As raft after raft were brought alongside Bibb, it became necessary to leave dead bodies on the rafts, there being no time for the dead, when the living were clamoring to be saved. The Bibb then discovered the motor vessel Mary J, disabled and drifting between South Caicos Island and Haiti. This convoy was part of an east bound trans-Atlantic convoy which had broken off and was headed for Iceland. In January 1945 Bibb left Charleston, South Carolina for service in the Pacific theater where, as an AGC, she served temporarily as the flagship for Commander, Mine Craft, Pacific Fleet. On the 2nd Bibb received a report from a ship with call letters KFFL that she had been torpedoed. The search was unsuccessful but the cutter depth-charged another submarine contact. A warning of the presence of unidentified aircraft was received on the 12th. The Bibb was again underway on 31 August 1942 screening the port bow of the eastbound trans-Atlantic convoy SC-97. At 0448 on the 21st she attacked a sound contact with a barrage of depth charges with undetermined results, due to darkness and haze. She then sailed to Mayport, Florida, for a week of training at the Navy Fleet Training Center. Bibb stood out of Argentia Harbor on 7 December 1942 with MacLeish and USS Simpson (DD-221) and on the 11th made rendezvous with two Russian submarines, taking station on them to act as senior escort to Halifax, Nova Scotia. x .50 caliber Browning MG; 2 x depth charge racks; 1 x "Y" gun depth charge projector. By March 1st the Azores group had departed and on the same day the Casablanca section of the convoy, consisting of seven merchant vessels and USS Cossatot (AO-77), with three escorts detached. Those who did not make it into a life raft died from hypothermia. On the 9th the Casablanca section, escorted by two destroyers, joined the main convoy. It is believed that the type of rubber suit worn by the survivors contributed greatly to their withstanding the exposure. Being unable to re-establish the contact the vessels returned to their former course. On 7 February 1943, the U-402 torpedoed the Mallory as it straggled behind the convoy. .The U.S. Coast Guard Gunboat Bibb (WPG-31) departs Pearl Harbor.; The Bibb departs for duty in Vietnamese waters, where she served from 4 July 1968 to 28 February, 1969 with Coast Guard Squadron One. On two occasions she sent a medical team ashore to the fishing village of Song Ong Doc in An Xuyen Province, approximately 150 miles southwest of Saigon. On 3 November we transferred them to the commercial tug Neptunia for further transfer to the tug Turmoil which then took them to Singapore.". The barometer dropped and the winds rose with a number five sea. On the 17th three merchant vessels detached for Casablanca and, on the 18th, one detached for Gibraltar and two merchant ships and three British submarines joined the convoy. An hour and a half later Bibb sighted a raft close aboard with survivors, and three hours later dropped two charges on a doubtful sound contact, while HMS Dauphin screened the rescue ship. Add to cart Buy Now. After maneuvering close to the Bibb to secure a mooring line, the flying boat lost control and collided with the cutter's hull, damaging the nose of the aircraft as well as both wings and their attached floats. On the 29th a general alarm was sounded on receiving a radar contact at a range of 11 miles, thought to be a possible aircraft. Anti-submarine weaponry was added in mid-1941 and under Executive Order of 11 September 1941, Bibb became eligible for transfer to the Navy by agreement between the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Coast Guard. The legendary Bibb was named for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (July 4, 1844 - March 7, 1845) George M. Bibb. On the 14th three more destroyer escorts joined the task force. 2 x MK-13 high altitude parachute flare mortars. From 11 April to 2 May 1973 she served on Ocean Station Echo, serving there again from 12 June to 3 July that same year. They went on to serve as amphibious task force flagships, as search-and-rescue (SAR) ships during the Korean War, on weather patrol, and as naval gunfire support ships during Vietnam. In peacetime the Bibb spent time on ocean station providing weather information and beacons to trans-Atlantic traffic. On the 6th Bibb, together with USS MacLeish (DD-220) was relieved of further escort duty and departed the convoy setting a course for Argentia, where she arrived on the 7th. The bodies of the navigator and observer were recovered. At 2210 Bibb received a challenge on bearing 340 degrees and answering it, the challenge was identified as the submarine HMS Seawolf on the surface below the horizon. Ordered to Boston Navy Yard for repairs, she searched en route for a Coast Guard plane reported down in the vicinity of White Island. and her members who help to keep these memories alive. Many of them were suffering from exposure and edema, but after treatment almost all recovered. Garret Conklin garretc@earthlink.net or vern@armory.com Please send stories to webmaster Garret E. Conklin 2525 Crist St Alameda, CA 94501-4623 510-523-1878 garretc@earthlink.net or vern@armory.com Four hours later Orbis was underway to rejoin. Next day six merchant vessels detached for Casablanca while eight joined. On the 20th a destroyer escort reported picking up Morse Code signals on their underwater sound gear, and an hour later Bibb picked up the same signals. At 0809, a large explosion was observed on a ship in the convoy. On the 13th Bogue reported an attack by her aircraft four miles astern of the convoy and two destroyers were detached to assist the plane, who rejoined later reporting negative results. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter George M. Bibb (Builder's No. Bibb was named for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (July 4, 1844 - March 7, 1845) George M. Bibb . The plane was in a slight glide, losing altitude, apparently picking out one of the ships in the anchorage as a suicide crash target. Armament:1936:3 x 5/51 (single); 2 x 6-pounders. When an enemy aircraft was sighted coming in from the northwest on 28 April 1945 Bibb commenced firing. It was a combination ocean station patrol and search and rescue operation that brought Bibb and her crew international recognition when, while operating on Ocean Station Charlie on 14 October 1947, the transoceanic airliner Bermuda Sky Queen was forced to make a landing during a gale with high winds and in rough seas when the flying boat ran low on fuel. On 4 June 1944, CDR H. T. Diehl, USCG, relieved CDR C .A. She served on Ocean Station Hotel from 11 to 20 January 1973 and then on Ocean Station Delta from 26 January to 15 February. From 1946 to 1973, Bibb was stationed at Boston. These included Pearl Harbor, Guam, Subic Bay, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Yokosuka. On 24 July 1960 she departed on a Reserve Cruise. She received credit for the destruction of one Japanese aircraft. Nearby, a second Treasury-Class ship, the USCGC Duane (WPG-33) was also sunk as an artificial reef. On the 11th she stood down the Block Island swept channel for Norfolk and moored at the Naval Operating Base on the 12th. In 1984 she participated in a multifaceted law enforcement operation code-named "Operation Wagon Wheel" in the Caribbean. On 2 November 1969, She began the year 1971 by serving on Ocean Station Bravo, where she served from 3 to 26 of January. Because of the weather zigzagging was discontinued. The USCGC Bibb was a 327-foot Secretary-Class Coast Guard ship commissioned in 1936. On 2 November 1969 Bibb towed to safety the disabled merchant vessel SS Caravan, which was located 150 miles southeast of Cape Fear. New navigation and communication systems were also added. 1946: 1 x 5"/38 (single); 1 x 40mm;/60 (twin); 2 x 20mm/80 (single); 1 x Hedgehog. Radar: (1945) SK, SG-1; (1966) AN/SPS-29D, AN/SPA-52. Each of our products is invested with brains and time to create by the best designers, as well as a dedicated team of ideas. Men felt it the minute he took command and there was not a man on the ship who would not go the extra mile for the old man. In the fall she steamed to Ocean Station Bravo, where she served from 27 September to 17 October 1973. At 0810 on the 13th they effected a rendezvous with the Simpson and the two Russian submarines and set a course for Halifax, delivering the submarines to the Canadian corvette HMCS Liscomb at noon on the 11th. These men had been some 60 hours in rough seas in an open boat and on rafts and their condition was much better than would be expected. From April to August of 1945 she participated in the assault on Okinawa, surviving numerous kamikaze attacks. If you served in USCGC Bibb (WPG-31/WHEC-31), Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. Complement: 1937: 12 officers, 4 warrants, 107 enlisted;
No other enemy action took place in Bibb's vicinity during the rest of May and she remained anchored, continuing as flagship of COMINPAC. Bibb is credited with destroying one Japanese kamikaze aircraft in action at Karema Retto. She was built in 1936 in the US Naval Yard in Philadelphia, PA. Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1987, "USCG: Flag/SES Bios - Commander Coast Guard Atlantic Area", List of cutters of the United States Coast Guard, Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area, Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District, Maritime Heritage Trail Battle of Saipan, List of shipwrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Bibb&oldid=1131140070, Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Sunk as an artificial reef off the Florida Keys on 28 November 1987, 2 x Westinghouse double-reduction geared turbines; 2 x Babcock & Wilcox sectional express, air-encased, 400 psi, 200 superheat 5,250 (total shaft horse power), 1937: 12 officers, 4 warrants, 107 enlisted, 1941: 16 officers, 5 warrants, 202 enlisted. From 5 to 27 December of 1975 she served on Ocean Station Hotel. On 17 July 1982, In 1984 she participated in a multifaceted law enforcement operation code-named "Operation Wagon Wheel" in the Caribbean. On the 15th USS. The cutter, Sunk as an artificial reef off the Florida Keys on 28 November 1987, 2 x Westinghouse double-reduction geared turbines; 2 x Babcock & Wilcox sectional express, air-encased, 400 psi, 200 superheat. It lies on its side at a depth of about 130 feet (40m). In March-April 1956 she served on Ocean Station Bravo again and in June 1956 she served on Ocean Station Charlie. She remained there only seven hours and at 1729 stood out of Loch Foyle in company with Ingham and Vulcan for a trip direct to Norfolk, Virginia. On the 14th several high frequency direction finder bearings were reported and on the 19th the convoy made an emergency turn on a contact which later proved to be non-submarine. The Bibb departed Guantanamo Bay on 29 December 1943, escorting convoy GAT-108 and arrived at Trinidad 3 January 1944. After more than a decade of comparative retirement from the national scene, Bibb returned to the United States Senate in 1828 as a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson. On 14 June 1945 Bibb stood out of Kerama Retto, in company with two other Navy vessels, and escorted by three destroyers, to ride out a reported storm at sea. Escorted by USS Barry (APD-29) Bibb departed Norfolk on the 15th of February and arrived at Panama on the 22nd. With the decrease in the threat by U-boats by 1944 and the increase in the number of available Allied escort vessels, the Navy determined that the 327s would better serve the national security needs of the nation as command and control vessels [known as AGCs] for amphibious landings. On the 17th a Navy seaman was transferred by pulling boat from one of the convoyed vessels to the Bibb for an appendectomy. On the 31st she was underway escorting USS Saturn (AF-40) to St. John's Newfoundland, where she arrived at 0900. Two hours later a white wake was sighted passing astern from port to starboard and Bibb maneuvered on various courses at 15 knots for a sound contact, resuming normal patrol speed an hour later. On 29 and 30 January 1945 she was depermed, degaussed and tested. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. The Bibb also transited the Panama Canal and crossed the equator and the international date line, with appropriate ceremonies for her crew. The following year brought a number of notable seizures for drug and fisheries charges. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. Bibbwas named for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (July 4, 1844 - March 7, 1845) George M. Bibb. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. At 2152 word was received that a vessel in the convoy had been torpedoed. Eight merchant vessels were detached for Gibraltar on the 15th. They then began paddling towards the cutter, but the seas were too great. Sunk as an artificial reef off the Florida Keys on 28 November 1987, 2 x Westinghouse double-reduction geared turbines; 2 x Babcock & Wilcox sectional express, air-encased, 400 psi, 200 superheat. CGC Bibb in her post-war configuration and paint. Bibb was then directed to coordinate the search efforts for the missing sailing vessel Patriot with six crewmen aboard. Once the conversion was completed she was again classified as WPG-31. From 1946 to 1973. On the 12th three more merchant vessels joined. On the 8th she stood out of Gibraltar Harbor in command of Task Force to meet convoy GUS-11 at the straits. On the 23rd the Bibb sounded the submarine alarm on receiving a sound contact and dropped one depth charge 600 yards ahead of one of the convoy columns. Sound contacts were attacked that day and the next and on the 16th four more destroyers of Task Group 21.3 joined the escort group. In April of 1966 she served on Ocean Station Delta and on Ocean Station Charlie in August-September 1967. The convoy consisted of 69 merchant ships, 19 LSTs and one British aircraft carrier. After she returned to service, The following year brought a number of notable seizures for drug and fisheries charges. The planes drew away at 0440, the escorts ceased firing, and at 0448 the all clear was sounded and Bibb, ceasing to make smoke, was secured from general quarters. An hour later a Netherlands war vessel joined the task force as an anti-aircraft ship. The temperature of the water was 50 degrees, so that the survivors who wore winter underclothing suffered less in the water. In the Vietnam War, the Bibb transported John Kerry after he was shot on his Swift boat. From 1946 to 1973, Bibb was stationed at Boston. Investigating a radar contact astern on the 26th it was found to be the USS SC-689 which had separated from the company during the night. .Built for only $2.5 million each, in terms of cost effectiveness we may never see the likes of these cutters again.. Price: $ 18.00 (Price Includes Shipping & Handling) AssociationOfficers2021. Eight merchant vessels were detached for Gibraltar on the 15th. Appointed to the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1808, he became its chief justice in the following year but resigned in 1810 and was sent to the United States Senate in 1811. The next day she sighted the bow of the tanker and left it in sinking condition also. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter George M. Bibb (Builder's No. As they cleared the flying boat, Bibb drifted as close a practicable and threw lines to the men, bringing them safely aboard. The Casablanca section started joining the main convoy from Mediterranean ports. She departed Boston on 20 December 1947, en route to Ocean Station Charlie via Argentia, relieving CGC Androscoggin (WPG-68) on 26 December 1947. On the 11th she anchored in Buckner Bay and acted as flagship for Task Group 52.9 until 1 December 1945, when she departed for the United States. 2, 37 44' N x 41 13' W. Here the cutters steamed continuously within a 100 square mile area from the center of the station with each patrol lasting approximately 21 days. One convoyed vessel detached for Horta, Azores on the 20th and two joined. Although a leader of the successful War Hawk faction in Congress, Bibb resigned from the Senate in 1814, before the end of the War of 1812, and returned to Kentucky. 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