ISBN: | 978-5-5118-3836-6 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The steel-hulled United States Coast Guard harbor tug, USCGC Swivel was one of fifteen 65-foot harbor tugs that entered service in the 1960s. Each was built to replace the 64-foot wooden-hulled harbor tugs built during the 1940s. The USCGC Swivel was built by the Gibbs Corporation of Jacksonville, Florida at a cost of $158 thousand dollars. She was commissioned on 27 October 1961. The 65-footers remained unnamed until the mid-1960s. Swivel was assigned to the First Coast Guard District and was based in Rockland, Maine. Her crew consisted of an Officer in Charge (OINC), a Chief Boatswain Mate (E-7); an Executive Petty Officer (XPO), a First Class Boatswain Mate (E-6); an Engineering Petty Officer (EPO), a First Class Machinist Mate (E-6); a Second Class Machinist Mate (E-5) and three non-rated crew (E-3 or E-2).