The USCG 65' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the United States Coast Guard for search and rescue, law enforcement, aids-to-navigation work and light icebreaking. The tugs are capable of breaking of ice with propulsion ahead and of ice backing and ramming.USCGC Chock (WYTL-65602), Data Sheet (26 September 2012), U.S. Coast Guard They were designed with steel hulls to replace the wooden-hulled tugs that had been in service since the 1940s and were built by Gibbs Gas Engine Company, Jacksonville, Florida;"Gibbs Gas Engine Company"' Small Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders List, Shipbuilding History.com Barbour Boat Works of New Bern, North Carolina;"Barbour Boat Works", Small Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders List, Shipbuilding History.com and Western Boat Builders Corporation, Tacoma, Washington"Western Boat Builders Corp.", Small Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders List, Shipbuilding History.com from 1961 to 1967. They were originally powered by a single 400 horsepower diesel engine, however several have been re-powered with 500 horsepower main drive engines since they were constructed."65-foot Small Harbor Tug (WYTL)", Assets: Aircraft, Boats, and Cutters, U.S. Coast Guard
Ships Name and hull number BuilderScheina, pp 105-106 Commissioned Disposition orhomeport Gibbs 19 July 1961 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gibbs 12 September 1962 Baltimore, Maryland Gibbs 27 October 1961 Decommissioned on 14 April 1995 Gibbs 1962 Rockland, Maine Gibbs 27 March 1962 Decommissioned in 1995 Gibbs April 1962 Decommissioned on 1 May 1995 Barbour 3 April 1963 Southwest Harbor, Maine Barbour August 1963 Boston, Massachusetts Barbour 7 May 1963 South Portland, Maine Barbour 17 January 1963 Bayonne, New Jersey Barbour 21 February 1963 Bayonne, New Jersey Barbour 19 March 1963 Saugerties, New York Western 27 May 1963 Decommissioned on 4 October 1982 Western 10 April 1967 New Haven, Connecticut Western 10 May 1967 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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