![]() USCGC Mariposa underway in 1971.
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Name | Mariposa |
Namesake | Mariposa plant |
Builder | Zenith Dredge Corporation |
Laid down | 25 October 1943 |
Launched | 14 January 1944 |
Commissioned | 1 July 1944 |
Decommissioned | 7 March 2000 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy as training hulk, 17 April 2000 |
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Class and type | Iris-class buoy tender |
Displacement | 935 long tons (950 t) |
Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 47 ft 1 in (14.35 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Propulsion | 1 × electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators driven by 2 Cooper Bessemer-type GND-8, 4-cycle diesels; single screw |
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The USCGC Mariposa (WLB-397) was an Iris-class buoy tender belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 14 January 1944 and commissioned on 1 July 1944.[1]