Thetis-class patrol boat
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Thetis-class patrol boats, also called the Argo-class patrol boats, were a class of 18 steel-hulled cutters of the United States Coast Guard built from 1931 to 1934.
USCGC Argo (WPC-100) underway during World War II, circa 1944
USCGC Dione
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USCGC Dione was a Thetis-class patrol boat operated by the United States Coast Guard from 1934 to 1963; she was designated a cutter. She and the other members of the Thetis class were designed to enfo
Thetis-class patrol boat
…USCGC Daphne (WPC-106) USCGC Dione (WPC-107) USCGC Electra (WPC-187…
USCGC Jackson in 1927. She was a member of the 125-foot (38 m) Active-class patrol boats that preceded the Thetis class.
A 3"/23-caliber gun aboard a submarine chaser in the late 1910s.
Dione escorting a convoy, 1942; her Y-gun can be seen behind the sailor in the foreground
A convoy off the coast of North Carolina sometime during World War II. Dione escorted similar convoys during the latter half of the Second Happy Time