USS Tanager, an 890-ton Auk class minesweeper, was built at Lorain, Ohio. Commissioned in late July 1945, she operated along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts for most of her active career. Tanager deployed twice to the Mediterranean Sea for duty with the Sixth Fleet, once in 1951-1952 and again in 1953. She was decommissioned in December 1954 and laid up at Orange, Texas. The following February, during a general revision of U.S. Navy mine warfare ship nomenclature, she was redesignated MSF-385.
In October 1963 the Navy transferred Tanager to the U.S. Coast Guard. Modified for service as a training ship and numbered W-385 (soon changed to WTR-885), she was recommissioned as USCGC Tanager in July 1964. The ship's active Coast Guard service lasted until February 1972. Later in that year she was sold. Renamed Eagle, she operated for several more decades as a private yacht.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Tanager (AM-385, later MSF-385) and USCGC Tanager (WTR-385, later WTR-885).
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The following photograph shows Tanager after her transfer to the U.S. Coast Guard:
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