Evergreen, 1960

The Evergreen (WAGO-295) was built in 1942 at the Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota and was originally designed as a buoy tender. The Evergreen is used from late winter to mid-summer on oceanographic surveys and ice patrols in the North Atlantic Ocean and Labrador Sea. The Evergreen has a special bow, called an icebreaker bow and can break up to a thickness of four feet of ice. The rest of the year the Evergreen is on a continual round-the-clock standby status to get underway to render aid and assistance wherever and whenever needed.

USCGC Evergreen (WAGL-295; WAGO-295; WLB-295; WMEC-295) began her service life as a 180-foot buoy tender. During her career she also served as an oceanographic cutter. She changed designations and missions once again in 1982 when she was redesignated as a medium endurance cutter and was tasked with the duties carried out by those cutters, i.e. law enforcement, fisheries conservation management, environmental protection, and search and rescue. She was decommissioned on 26 June 1990.

[Taken from the Coast Guard website, WPC's & WMEC's: 1945-2000, A Historic Photo Gallery.]