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Legaré">Hugh Swinton Legare</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Operator</td><td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">United States Coast Guard</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Builder</td><td><a href="/wiki/Brown,_Boveri_%26_Cie" title="Brown, Boveri & Cie">American Brown Boveri Electrical Corporation</a>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden, New Jersey</a></span></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Cost</td><td><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>63,173.00</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>February 14, 1927</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Commissioned</td><td>March 17, 1927</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>March 5, 1968</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Reclassified</td><td>WMEC-144 in 1966</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Unknown</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Active-class_patrol_boat" title="Active-class patrol boat"><i>Active</i>-class patrol boat</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>232 tons</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>125 feet</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>23 feet, 6 inches</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>7 feet, 6 inches</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp engins</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Range</td><td>3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) At max. speed: 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Boats & landing <br /> craft carried</td><td>2 long boats</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>20 men (3 officers, 17 enlisted men)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>1927</i>:</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × 3"/27 caliber gun</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>1941</i>:</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × <a href="/wiki/3%22/23_caliber_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="3"/23 caliber gun">3"/23 caliber gun</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/Depth_charge" title="Depth charge">depth charge</a> tracks</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>1945</i>:</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × <a href="/wiki/Bofors_40_mm_Automatic_Gun_L/60" class="mw-redirect" title="Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60">40 mm/80</a> (single)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/Oerlikon_20_mm_cannon" title="Oerlikon 20 mm cannon">20 mm/80</a> (single)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × depth charge tracks</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/Mousetrap_(weapon)" title="Mousetrap (weapon)">Mousetrap</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_weapon" title="Anti-submarine weapon">ASW</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>1960</i>:</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × 40 mm/60</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>USCGC <i>Legare</i> (WSC-144)</b> was <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard_Cutter" title="United States Coast Guard Cutter">cutter</a> that served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">United States Coast Guard</a> for almost forty-one years. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Namesake">Namesake</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Namesake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Legare</i> was named in honor of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_S._Legar%C3%A9" title="Hugh S. Legaré">Hugh Swinton Legare</a>, the 16th <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General of the United States">Attorney General of the United States</a>. Born in <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, on 2 January 1797, he graduated from the <a href="/wiki/College_of_South_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="College of South Carolina">College of South Carolina</a> in 1814. For the next three years he studied law, then traveled in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, studying <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a> in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. Upon his return to South Carolina in 1820, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_General_Assembly" title="South Carolina General Assembly">South Carolina General Assembly</a>. He served until 1822, and again from 1824 to 1830, when he was elected attorney general of South Carolina. In 1832, he was <a href="/wiki/Charg%C3%A9_d%27affaires" title="Chargé d'affaires">chargé d'affaires</a> at <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>. Upon his return to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a>. He served from 1837 until 1839. <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a> appointed him Attorney General of the United States in 1841. He died in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, on 29 June 1843 while attending ceremonies at the unveiling of the <a href="/wiki/Bunker_Hill_Monument" title="Bunker Hill Monument">Bunker Hill Monument</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Class_history">Class history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Class history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This <a href="/wiki/Ship_class" title="Ship class">class of vessels</a> was one of the most useful and long-lasting in U.S. Coast Guard service, with 16 cutters still in use in the 1960s. The last to be decommissioned from active service was <a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Morris_(WPC-147)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Morris (WPC-147) (page does not exist)">USCGC <i>Morris</i> (WPC-147)</a> in 1970; the last in actual service was <a href="/wiki/USCGC_Cuyahoga" title="USCGC Cuyahoga">USCGC <i>Cuyahoga</i> (WIX-157)</a>, which sank after an accidental collision in 1978. They were designed to trail the Coast Guard <a href="/wiki/Mother_ship" title="Mother ship">mother ships</a> along the outer line of patrol against <a href="/wiki/Rumrunner" class="mw-redirect" title="Rumrunner">rumrunners</a> during <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition</a>. They were constructed at a cost of <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>63,173 each. They gained a reputation for durability that was only enhanced by their re-engining in the late 1930s; their original 6-<a href="/wiki/Cylinder_(engine)" title="Cylinder (engine)">cylinder</a> <a href="/wiki/Diesel_engine" title="Diesel engine">diesel engines</a> were replaced by significantly more powerful 8-cylinder units that used the original engine beds and gave the vessels an additional 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) of speed. All served in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> (1941–1945), and two, <a href="/wiki/USCGC_Bedloe" title="USCGC Bedloe">USCGC <i>Bedloe</i> (WSC-128)</a> and <a href="/wiki/USCGC_Jackson" title="USCGC Jackson">USCGC <i>Jackson</i> (WSC-142)</a>, were lost in a storm in 1944 during their war service. Ten were refitted as <a href="/wiki/Buoy_tender" title="Buoy tender">buoy tenders</a> during World War II and reverted to patrol work afterward. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cutter_history">Cutter history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cutter history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Construction_and_commissioning">Construction and commissioning</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Construction and commissioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>USCGC <i>Legare</i> built by the <a href="/wiki/Brown,_Boveri_%26_Cie" title="Brown, Boveri & Cie">American Brown Boveri Electrical Corporation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>. She was <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> on 17 March 1927. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-World_War_II">Pre-World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Pre-World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Legare</i> patrolled from <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, as part of the Coast Guard's campaign against <a href="/wiki/Rumrunner" class="mw-redirect" title="Rumrunner">rumrunners</a> during <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition</a>. In 1929, <i>Legare</i> pursued and seized the rumrunner <i>Flor Del Mar</i>, which was promptly abandoned by its crew. In 1931 she transferred to <a href="/wiki/Pascagoula,_Mississippi" title="Pascagoula, Mississippi">Pascagoula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, to patrol the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Gulf_Coast" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Gulf Coast">United States Gulf Coast</a>. </p><p><i>Legare</i> next was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. In accordance with Executive Order 8929 of 1 November 1941, the Coast Guard was transferred from the control of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Department of the Treasury">United States Department of the Treasury</a> and began to operate under the control of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. Fitted out to tend <a href="/wiki/Lighthouse" title="Lighthouse">lighthouses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buoy" title="Buoy">buoys</a>, and other aids to <a href="/wiki/Navigation" title="Navigation">navigation</a>, <i>Legare</i> operated in the inland waterways of the United States and along the <a href="/wiki/United_States_East_Coast" class="mw-redirect" title="United States East Coast">United States East Coast</a>. She also served on coastal patrol and <a href="/wiki/Search_and_rescue" title="Search and rescue">search-and-rescue</a> duty. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Legare</i> continued to operate from Norfolk after the United States entered <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> with the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">attack on Pearl Harbor</a> on 7 December 1941. While on patrol on 19 March 1942, she received word of a <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> contact 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of <a href="/wiki/Hatteras,_North_Carolina" title="Hatteras, North Carolina">Hatteras</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>. She steamed to the area, made contact, and attacked, expending all eight of her <a href="/wiki/Depth_charge" title="Depth charge">depth charges</a>. Her crew observed <a href="/wiki/Fuel_oil" title="Fuel oil">Oil</a>, debris, and air bubbles on the surface, but the sinking of a submarine at that position on that date was not confirmed by captured documents examined after the war. </p><p><i>Legare</i> picked up three survivors from the <a href="/wiki/Merchant_ship" title="Merchant ship">merchant ship</a> SS <i>David H. Atwater</i> on 2 and 3 April 1942 and transported them to <a href="/wiki/Chincoteague,_Virginia" title="Chincoteague, Virginia">Chincoteague</a>, Virginia. </p><p>On 14 April 1942, <i>Legare</i> was about 100 nautical miles (185 km; 115 mi) off <a href="/wiki/Cape_Charles_(headland)" title="Cape Charles (headland)">Cape Charles</a>, Virginia, when she detected a <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> on the surface at 20:30 and closed to investigate.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Legare</i> exchanged recognition with the submarine and established that she was a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> vessel, <a href="/wiki/USS_Mackerel_(SS-204)" title="USS Mackerel (SS-204)">USS <i>Mackerel</i> (SS-204)</a>, making a voyage on the surface from <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, to Norfolk.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No notice of <i>Mackerel</i>′s voyage had been given to local U.S. <a href="/wiki/Antisubmarine_warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisubmarine warfare">antisubmarine warfare</a> forces, so <i>Legare</i>′s crew offered to escort <i>Mackerel</i> the rest of the way to Norfolk, and <i>Mackerel</i>′s crew accepted the offer.<sup id="cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two vessels headed for Norfolk in company at 21:30.<sup id="cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 23:15, <i>Legare</i> was about 2,000 yards (1,830 m) astern of <i>Mackerel</i> when she saw <i>Mackerel</i> make two quick course alterations and changed course herself to conform to <i>Mackerel</i>′s movements.<sup id="cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Mackerel</i>′s crew, meanwhile, sighted two torpedoes headed for her and evaded them, then sighted what they believed was a German U-boat on the surface and observed it firing a single <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedo</a> at <i>Legare</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Mackerel</i> fired two torpedoes at the U-boat, which outran <i>Mackerel</i> and disappeared into the darkness apparently unscathed.<sup id="cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Legare</i> sighted a torpedo headed directly for her which her crew thought <i>Mackerel</i> had fired, and took evasive action, and the torpedo passed down <i>Legare</i>′s <a href="/wiki/Port_and_starboard" title="Port and starboard">port</a> side at a distance of only 20 yards (18 m).<sup id="cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Legare</i> lost contact with <i>Mackerel</i> and searched for the U-boat for the next <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 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href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> under the command of the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea_Frontier" class="mw-redirect" title="Caribbean Sea Frontier">Caribbean Sea Frontier</a>, and so served until the end of hostilities in 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-World_War_II">Post-World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Post-World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Executive Order 9606 returned the Coast Guard to the control of the Department of the Treasury on 1 January 1946. <i>Legare</i> subsequently served as <a href="/wiki/Buoy_tender" title="Buoy tender">buoy tender</a> at <a href="/wiki/Brownsville,_Texas" title="Brownsville, Texas">Brownsville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. She later performed patrol as well as search-and-rescue duties while stationed in <a href="/wiki/New_Bedford,_Massachusetts" title="New Bedford, Massachusetts">[New Bedford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeport,_Massachusetts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Freeport, Massachusetts (page does not exist)">Freeport</a>, Massachusetts. </p><p>On 25 July 1956 at 23:10, the large Italian luxury <a href="/wiki/Ocean_liner" title="Ocean liner">passenger liner</a> <a href="/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria" title="SS Andrea Doria">SS <i>Andrea Doria</i></a> and the Swedish ocean liner <a href="/wiki/MS_Stockholm_(1948)" class="mw-redirect" title="MS Stockholm (1948)">MS <i>Stockholm</i></a> collided in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> in heavy <a href="/wiki/Fog" title="Fog">fog</a> 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) south of <a href="/wiki/Nantucket_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Nantucket Island">Nantucket Island</a>. <i>Stockholm</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> special <a href="/wiki/Bow_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bow (ship)">bow</a>, designed to cut through ice, struck <i>Andrea Doria</i> amidships, ripping a great hole her side. During the early-morning hours of 26 July 1956, <i>Legare</i> departed her <a href="/wiki/Home_port" title="Home port">home port</a> of New Bedford, the first U.S. Coast Guard cutter to respond to an <a href="/wiki/SOS" title="SOS">SOS</a> from <i>Andrea Doria</i>. </p><p>One of many ships to respond, <i>Legare</i> was the first U.S. Coast Guard cutter to arrive at the scene of the disaster and was present for the entire rescue operation. She rescued survivors from <i>Andrea Doria</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> <a href="/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard)" title="Lifeboat (shipboard)">lifeboats</a> and transported them to larger vessels on the scene, such as the <a href="/wiki/French_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="French Line">French Line</a>'s <a href="/wiki/SS_%C3%8Ele_de_France" title="SS Île de France">SS <i>Île de France</i></a>, which had diverted from her eastbound voyage from <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> to her home port of <a href="/wiki/Le_Havre" title="Le Havre">Le Havre</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, to render assistance to <i>Andrea Doria</i>. After the rescue operation had concluded and <i>Andrea Doria</i> had sunk, <i>Legare</i>, along with other Coast Guard cutters, used gunfire to sink <i>Andrea Doria</i>′s abandoned lifeboats, which maritime authorities had deemed a hazard to navigation.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Legare</i> was redesignated as a <a href="/wiki/Medium_endurance_cutter" title="Medium endurance cutter">medium endurance cutter</a> and given the new <a href="/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol" title="Hull classification symbol">hull classification symbol</a> WMEC-144 in 1966. She was <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">decommissioned</a> in 1968 after 41 years of service. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hinman & Campbell, p. 117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hinman & Campbell, pp. 117–118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hinmanp118-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp118_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hinman & Campbell, p. 118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hinmanp119-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-hinmanp119_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hinman & Campbell, p. 119.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Information from former United States Coast Guardsman serving on <i>Legare</i> in 1956.</span> </li> </ol></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> <i>This article incorporates text from the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> </i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships" title="Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships">Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</a><i>. The entry can be found <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/legare-i.html">here</a>.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Legare_(WSC-144)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hkupDwAAQBAJ&dq=LApon+raton&pg=PA181">Hinman, Charles R., and Douglas E. Campbell. <i>The Submarine Has No Friends: Friendly Fire Incidents Involving U.S. Submarines During World War II</i>. 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exist)"><i>Nemaha</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Pulaski_(WPC-149)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Pulaski (WPC-149) (page does not exist)"><i>Pulaski</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USCGC_Reliance_(WSC-150)" title="USCGC Reliance (WSC-150)"><i>Reliance</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Rush_(WPC-151)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Rush (WPC-151) (page does not exist)"><i>Rush</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USCGC_Tiger" title="USCGC Tiger"><i>Tiger</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USCGC_Travis" title="USCGC Travis"><i>Travis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USCGC_Vigilant_(WPC-154)" title="USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154)"><i>Vigilant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Woodbury_(WPC-155)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Woodbury (WPC-155) (page does not exist)"><i>Woodbury</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Yeaton_(WPC-156)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USCGC Yeaton (WPC-156) (page does not exist)"><i>Yeaton</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USCGC_Cuyahoga" title="USCGC Cuyahoga"><i>Cuyahoga</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Preceded by: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tampa-class_cutter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tampa-class cutter (page does not exist)"><i>Tampa</i> class</a></li> <li>Followed by: <a href="/wiki/Banff-class_sloop" title="Banff-class sloop">Lake class</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Coast_Guard_cutters" title="List of United States Coast Guard cutters">List of cutters of the United States Coast Guard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/SS_Suevic" title="SS Suevic">Skytteren</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/MV_Storsten" title="MV Storsten"><i>Storsten</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_David_H._Atwater" title="SS David H. Atwater"><i>David H. Atwater</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/SS_Tiger_(1917)" title="SS Tiger (1917)"><i>Tiger</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">3 Apr: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_destroyer_Shaumyan" title="Soviet destroyer Shaumyan"><i>Shaumyan</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">5 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Abingdon" title="HMS Abingdon">HMS <i>Abingdon</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/SS_Catahoula" title="SS Catahoula"><i>Catahoula</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cornwall_(56)" title="HMS Cornwall (56)">HMS <i>Cornwall</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Dorsetshire_(40)" title="HMS Dorsetshire (40)">HMS <i>Dorsetshire</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/MV_Empire_Beacon" title="MV Empire Beacon"><i>Empire Beacon</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hector_(F45)" title="HMS Hector (F45)">HMS <i>Hector</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Tenedos_(H04)" title="HMS Tenedos (H04)">HMS <i>Tenedos</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Havock_(H43)" title="HMS Havock (H43)">HMS <i>Havock</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMIS_Indus_(U67)" title="HMIS Indus (U67)">HMIS <i>Indus</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Lancing" title="SS Lancing"><i>Lancing</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Dewey_(YFD-1)" title="USS Dewey (YFD-1)">USS <i>Dewey</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/SS_Byron_D._Benson" title="SS Byron D. Benson"><i>Byron D. Benson</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_submarine_Shch-421" title="Soviet submarine Shch-421"><i>Shch-421</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMT_Svana" title="HMT Svana">HMT <i>Svana</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Apr: <a href="/wiki/Patrol_torpedo_boat_Q-112_Abra" title="Patrol torpedo boat Q-112 Abra"><i>Q-112 Abra</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(95)" title="HMS Hermes (95)">HMS <i>Hermes</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hollyhock_(K64)" title="HMS Hollyhock (K64)">HMS <i>Hollyhock</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Lance_(G87)" title="HMS Lance (G87)">HMS <i>Lance</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Patrol_torpedo_boat_Q-111_Luzon" title="Patrol torpedo boat Q-111 Luzon"><i>Q-111 Luzon</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Napa_(AT-32)" title="USS Napa (AT-32)">USS <i>Napa</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMAS_Vampire_(D68)" title="HMAS Vampire (D68)">HMAS <i>Vampire</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Canopus_(AS-9)" title="USS Canopus (AS-9)">USS <i>Canopus</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Empire_Cowper" title="SS Empire Cowper"><i>Empire Cowper</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Finch_(AM-9)" title="USS Finch (AM-9)">USS <i>Finch</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Kingston_(F64)" title="HMS Kingston (F64)">HMS <i>Kingston</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_El_Occidente" title="SS El Occidente"><i>El Occidente</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/SS_Empire_Amethyst" title="SS Empire Amethyst"><i>Empire Amethyst</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">14 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Benwood" title="SS Benwood"><i>Benwood</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Margaret_(ID-2510)" title="USS Margaret (ID-2510)"><i>Margaret</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-85_(1941)" title="German submarine U-85 (1941)"><i>U-85</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-252" title="German submarine U-252"><i>U-252</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Upholder_(P37)" title="HMS Upholder (P37)">HMS <i>Upholder</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Empire_Dryden" title="SS Empire Dryden"><i>Empire Dryden</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_San_Jacinto_(1903)" title="SS San Jacinto (1903)"><i>San Jacinto</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/SS_Connecticut_(1938)" title="SS Connecticut (1938)"><i>Connecticut</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">23 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_St._Francis" title="USS St. Francis"><i>Lammot Du Pont</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 Apr: <a href="/wiki/MV_Empire_Drum" title="MV Empire Drum"><i>Empire Drum</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">26 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Sturtevant_(DD-240)" title="USS Sturtevant (DD-240)">USS <i>Sturtevant</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">29 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Urge" title="HMS Urge">HMS <i>Urge</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">30 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Ashkhabad" title="SS Ashkhabad"><i>Ashkhabad</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-702" title="German submarine U-702"><i>U-702</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">2 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Tiger_(1917)" title="SS Tiger (1917)"><i>Tiger</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">3 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Tobruk" title="SS Tobruk"><i>Tobruk</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">5 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Gallant_(H59)" title="HMS Gallant (H59)">HMS <i>Gallant</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Apr: <i><a href="/wiki/Russian_battleship_Gangut_(1911)" title="Russian battleship Gangut (1911)">Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 Apr: <a href="/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Angelo_Bassini" title="Italian destroyer Angelo Bassini"><i>Angelo Bassini</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 Apr: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">USCGC <i>Legare</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Mackerel_(SS-204)" title="USS Mackerel (SS-204)">USS <i>Mackerel</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Benwood" title="SS Benwood"><i>Benwood</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/SS_Sagaing" title="SS Sagaing"><i>Sagaing</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Finch_(AM-9)" title="USS Finch (AM-9)">USS <i>Finch</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Uranus" title="USS Uranus">USS <i>Uranus</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Gulfamerica" title="SS Gulfamerica"><i>Gulfamerica</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">14 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Mackerel_(SS-204)" title="USS Mackerel (SS-204)">USS <i>Mackerel</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cotswold_(L54)" title="HMS Cotswold (L54)">HMS <i>Cotswold</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Flying_Fish_(SS-229)" title="USS Flying Fish (SS-229)">USS <i>Flying Fish</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">21 Apr: <a href="/wiki/Japanese_seaplane_tender_Akitsushima" title="Japanese seaplane tender Akitsushima"><i>Akitsushima</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">30 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Edinburgh_(16)" title="HMS Edinburgh (16)">HMS <i>Edinburgh</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1941" title="List of shipwrecks in 1941">1941</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1941" title="List of shipwrecks in 1941"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/12px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/18px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png 1.5x, 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