USCGC Northland (WPG-49) was a United States Coast Guard cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic operations in commission from 1927 to 1938 and from 1939 to 1946. She served during World War II.

2021年3月6日 · Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News, VA. Length: 216' 7" Beam: 38' 9" Draft: 16' 9" max. Displacement: 2,150 tons, maximum. Rig: Sail/diesel-electric. Cost: $865,730.00. Commissioned: 7 May 1927. Decommissioned: 27 March 1946. Disposition: Sold, served in the Israeli Navy, see below for details.

There have been several USCGC (United States Coast Guard Cutter) named Northland: USCGC Northland (WPG-49) served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1927–1946. She was designed for Arctic patrol and served in World War II. USCGC Northland (WMEC-904), is a medium endurance cutter based out of Portsmouth, Virginia.

2022年1月8日 · Type and Characteristics: Diesel auxiliary cutter with auxiliary sails, WPG-49, cruising-class of gunboat, designed for Arctic operations, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, Newport News, VA at cost of $865,700, launched 5 February 1927, commissioned 7 May 1927, 2,150 tons displacement, 216ft long x 38ft 9in beam x 16ft 9in draft ...

2015年8月13日 · (WPG-49: dp. 2065; l 216-; b. 39-; dr. 15-; s. 11 k.; cpl. 105; a. 2 3-, 4 20mm., 1 seaplane) The Coast Guard cutter Northland, a cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic...

On 12 September 1941, the cutter Northland (WPG-49) spotted a fishing trawler flying the colors of German-occupied Norway near MacKenzie Bay on Greenland’s eastern coast. The Northland ’s CO, Commander Carl Christian von Paulsen, sent an armed party aboard the ship, the Buskoe .

After the Danish government-in-exile requested that the United States protect Greenland, the Northland (Cmdr. C.C. von Paulsen, USCG) captured the Norwegian (being used by the Nazis) trawler Buskoe along with 27 men aboard. The Buskoe had disembarked members of a team to set up radio beacons. Later, three more men were captured. (U.S. Coast Guard).

USCGC Northland (WPG-49) was a cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic operations that served in World War II and later served in the Israeli Navy. She was the last cruising cutter built for the Coast Guard equipped with a sailing rig.[2]

USCGC NORTHLAND WPG-49; Redesignated Gunboat (WPG) 16 February 1942 Decommissioned 27 March 1946; THE JEWISH STATE (Privately Owned) Sold 3 January 1947 to Weston Trading Co, a front company for Mossad LeAliyah Bet (which operated to facilitate illegal Jewish immigration to British Palestine). INS ELIAT A-16 (Israeli Naval Service)

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc (WPG- 46), under command of Lieutenant Commander H. Belford, got under way from her berth in Boston on 12 May 1941 for the North Atlantic. She was to relieve the cutter Northland (WPG-49), whose mission was to patrol the convoy lanes and pick up survivors of merchantmen sunk by German U-boats.