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    VESSEL NAME:    USCGC McClane
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    WSC-146. redesignated WMEC-146 in 1966
    DATE OF LOSS:   2025
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Dismantled
    LOCATION:       -
    RIG TYPE:       U.S. Coast Guard Cutter
    HULL TYPE:      Steel
    BUILDER:        American Brown Boveri Electric Corp - 1927. 
    OWNER(S):       Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Musuem, Muskegon, MI
    MASTER:         none
    TONNAGE:        232 tons (trial)
    DIMENSIONS:     125 x 23 x 7
    CASUALTIES:     none

                    Awards:
                    American Defense Service Medal
                    American Campaign Medal
                    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with battle star
                    World War II Victory Medal
                    National Defense Service Medal with star
                    
                    On July 9, 1942 the McClane and YP-251 (Coast Guard
                  manned) sunk Japanese submarine RO-32 off Sitka, Alaska.
                  
                    April, 1955 - took in tow the schooner Aute which had
                  been disabled for 41 days with her crew of 6. towed to
                  Westport, WA. This one only one of the disabled vessels
                  that McClane towed to safety in her career.
                    
                    In 1993 USCGC McClane was donated to the Great Lakes
                  Naval and Memorial Museum (U.S.S. Silversides Submarine
                  Museum) in Muskegon, MI. 
                    In 2025, citing that the McClane's condition had 
                  deteriorated to such a degree that it was beyond the
                  scope of feasible preservation and was not accessible
                  for the public to tour, the vessel was taken away by
                  King Towing to be dismantled by Pitsch Companies.
                  Artifacts that were aboard were said to be preserved
                  and added to the museum's collection.

                    

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Sources: WOODTV Channel 8, Grand Rapids, MI
         Coast Guard Bulletin, Vol 4-5, pub. 1948
         Coast Guard Bulletin, Vol. 8, pub. 1952
         Port Angeles Evening News, 15 April, 1955