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The second USS Barataria (AVP-33) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946. She saw service in the later stages of World War II and was decommissioned postwar. She then was transferred to the United States Coast Guard and was in commission as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381), later WHEC-381 from 1949 to 1969, serving in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War during her lengthy Coast Guard career.
General characteristics (Coast Guard Cutter)
Class & type: Casco-class cutter
Displacement: In 1966: 1,786 tons light; 2,522.4 tons (full load)
Length: 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) overall; 300 ft 0 in (91.44 m) between perpendiculars
Beam: 41 ft 2.375 in (12.55713 m) maximum
Draft: 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) maximum in 1964
Installed power:
6,000 bhp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion:
Fairbanks-Morse direct-reversingdiesel engines, two shafts;
166,430 US gallons (630,000 L) of fuel
Speed:
17.35 knots (32.13 km/h) (maximum at full load) in 1966
11.9 knots (22.0 km/h) (economic) in 1966
Range:
9,946 nautical miles (18,420 km) at 17.35 knots (32.13 km/h) in 1966
20,500 nautical miles (38,000 km) at 11.0 knots (20.4 km/h) in 1966
Complement:
In 1966: 151 (10 officers, 3 warrant officers, 138 enlisted personnel)
Sensors and processing systems:
Radars in 1966 (one each): SPS-23, SPS-29A
Sonar in 1966: SQS-1
Armament:
In 1966: one single 5-inch (127 mm) 38-caliber Mark 30 Mod 65,
1 x Mark 52-2 Mod 3 director,
1 x Mark 26-3 fire-control radar
2 x .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
1 x Mark 32 Mod 5 antisubmarineprojector,
6 x Mark 10-8 torpedo tubes, Mark 44 torpedoes
