Ship Details

Bramble (U.S.C.G.C.)

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Registry #1 WAGL.392 (USCG) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 8635033 MMSI# 367741850 VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 Bramble (U.S.C.G.C..) Name 6
Name 2 2003 Bramble Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Duluth Area MN Country USA
 
Designer Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corp. Measurement (imp) 180' x x ? x ?
Builder Zenith Dredge Company Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1025 Type 1 Icebreaker (Class C)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2-V8 EMD diesel engines Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign NODK; WDI8756
Pendant  # WAGL.392 Masters Lieutenant-Commander H. H. Carter USCG (1957); LCDR G. Todd Prestidge USCG (2003)
 
Owner(s)
In 1943-2003 she was owned by the United States Coast Guard. After decommissioning in 2003 Bramble became a museum ship in Port Huron, Michigan. In 2018 she was sold to a private owner, who is preparing MV Bramble to repeat her historic 1957 circumnavigation of North America.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2003-00-00
 
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Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In the spring on 1945, this vesseldeparted the Great Lakes to her first homeport of San Pedro, Calif., to perform aids to navigation duties. Later that year, BRAMBLE was transferred to Juneau, Ak. For supply and aids to navigation work around the Aleutian Islands. In 1957 this USCG cutter while under the command of H. H. Carter travelled as part of a Coast Guard Squadron of three ships, made an West to East Transit of the Northwest Passage (the First US Vessels to Transit the Northwest Passage).
 
References
MacFarlane, J.M. (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers. In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Bramble_(WLB-392) (website viewed 18/09/2022);
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