The USCG 40-foot Utility Boat

[BuoyJumper]

Thanks for posting and WELCOME ABOARD Ken. Thanks for the history on those forties especially knowing that the 40394 is yours.  I was wondering when I posted the photo of the 394 if I could finally draw you out and get you to post.  Welcome aboard.

It's great to have another 40-boat owner aboard on the forums.  Your 394 and Bugsey's 450 need to have a get together in the spring.  He has a whole group of 40-boat Coasties from his 40-boat group at the Coast Guard Channel Community getting together for cruises in the spring.

[BuoyJumper]

Here's a pretty rare photo.  A 40-foot utility boat in Cam Ranh Bay. 
I wonder if this is one of those French/Vietnamese forties.    

[vftb]

It probably is Ron.  Wonder what year that was taken  ; made quite a few visits to Cam Ranh and don't ever remember seeing that 

[Zoomer]

Looks like one of the very early 40's....the peak at the bow looks a little more pointed than the later 40's
Just an observance.....I'm certainly no expert

[BuoyJumper]

It probably is Ron.  Wonder what year that was taken  ; made quite a few visits to Cam Ranh and don't ever remember seeing that 

The year was 1967 on that 40 in Cam Ranh Bay.

[MastersMate]

I believe Zoomer has it right on the age of the boat. The Mark I s' had that shorter little cuddy cabin forward. The mark IV s was a little longer.  Somewhere, and I'll keep looking, I found a photo of a USN 40' used at an Naval Air Station as a crash boat. Not sure if it was Atlantic or Pacific fleet side.

[vftb]

It probably is Ron.  Wonder what year that was taken  ; made quite a few visits to Cam Ranh and don't ever remember seeing that 

The year was 1967 on that 40 in Cam Ranh Bay.

Couple of years before my first visit.  Looking at the condition of the boat in that picture, it probably sank before I got there 

[MastersMate]

Took a while to chase this one down, but yet another overseas 40 UTB, this time at a Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan

[robalooski]

got some 40 footer pics at this site, plus all the udder boats and ships

http://www.coastguardpics.com/index.html

[BuoyJumper]

Found some more 40-footer photos for our gallery.


CGSTA New Orleans CG-40506 courtesy of Sunbird Photography - Don Boyd


CGSTA Neah Bay CG-40576 courtesy of John Wood.  CGSTA Los Angeles Harbor CG-40454 courtesy of Wendell Weber.

[BuoyJumper]

For those of you who served on a USCG 40-foot utility boat, the Coast Guard
Channel Community Group 40 Boat Sailors now have tee shirts available.  
They are available in three different colors with or without pockets.  The
shirt features Bugsey Moran's restored 40450 in pre-stripe livery.  

Here's what they look like.

For more information you can join the Coast Guard Channel Community
(it's free to join) by following this LINK.

[BuoyJumper]

A bad day for Seattle's 40455




Bill Frost photos

[BuoyJumper]

40425 answers a SAR call                                                                                      40465 is hauled out for repairs at Governor's Island in 1969

[Zoomer]

AND...................The story behind the 40455

[EX-CG-GM]

AND...................The story behind the 40455

I think that was the one that was sunk during a hydroplane race in Seattle on Lake Washington years ago.