What Was the Tamaroa Originally Designed?

USCGC Tamaroa (1921) was originally the 869-ton steam-powered United States Shipping Board tug Bartolme. She was acquired by the Coast Guard in 1921, renamed Tamaroa after Tamaroa, Illinois, and commissioned in 1922. She remained in service until 1935.

What happened to the Tamaroa?

Today, the Tamaroa is very fragile. The hull is rusted after springing a leak in 2012 that flooded a substantial portion of the ship while it was docked in Norfolk, Virginia. The damage was so extensive that it ended efforts by a group of veterans to turn the ship into a museum.

What Coast Guard cutter was in the perfect storm?

Based on the book, the movie “The Perfect Storm” mistakenly depicted the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa as one of the Service's more modern 210-foot Reliance-class cutters, but the search and rescue operations of the actual Tamaroa (WMEC-166) make for a more amazing story.