Periodically, I am an on site supervisor for The Creighton Company during times that the owner is occupied in performing other duties. The company is primarily in commercial building framing and drywall construction.
USCGC Blackthorn (WAGL/WLB-391) was an Iris-class, 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 in a collision near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities.
General characteristics
Class & type: Iris
Displacement: 935 long tons (950 t)
Length: 180 ft (55 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Installed power: 2 × Cooper-Bessemer diesel engines
2 × Westinghouse generators
Propulsion: 1 × electric motor
Speed: 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) maximum
Range: 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement: 48Armament:
Wartime: 1 × 3"/50 caliber single mount
4 × 20 millimeter/80 caliber
2 × depth-charge tracks
2 × mousetrap launchers (1944).
Peacetime: None.
