:USCGC Pontchartrain (1928)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:USCGC Pontchartrain.jpg |Ship caption=USCGC Pontchartrain, underway, pre-World War II. }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} |Ship name=USCGC Pontchartrain (1928) |Ship namesake=Lake Pontchartrain |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |Ship laid down=29 November 1927 |Ship launched= 16 June 1928 |Ship commissioned= 13 October 1928 |Ship decommissioned=30 April 1941 |Ship fate=Transferred to Royal Navy, 30 April 1941 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name=HMS Hartland (Y00) |Ship commissioned= 30 April 1941 |Ship fate=Sunk off Oran Harbour, 8 November 1942. }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=
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USCGC Pontchartrain was a {{sclass|Lake|cutter||USCG}} belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 16 June 1928 and commissioned on 13 October 1928 .{{cite web|last1=Helgason|first1=Guðmundur|title=USCGC Pontchartrain|url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/11114.html|website=uboat.net|access-date=24 July 2015}} After 13 years of service in the Coast Guard, she was transferred to the Royal Navy as part of the Lend-Lease Act. She was sunk in 1942 off Oran Harbor.
Career
= US Coast Guard - Pontchartrain =
After commissioning in November 1928, Pontchartrain was homeported in Norfolk, Virginia and assigned to the Bering Sea Patrol.{{cite web|title=Pontchartrain (1928)|url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Pontchartrain_1928.pdf|website=USCG|publisher=US Coast Guard|access-date=24 July 2015}}
On 4 December 1940 Pontchartrain rescued the entire crew of the 70 foot tugboat Edwin Duke which was in danger of sinking in a storm south of Long Island.{{cite web |title=Henjes v. Ætna Ins |url=https://casetext.com/case/henjes-v-tna-ins-co-3 |website=casetext |access-date=29 April 2020}}
= Royal Navy - ''Hartland'' =
As part of the Lend-Lease Act she was transferred to the Royal Navy where she was renamed HMS Hartland (Y00) and commissioned on 30 April 1941.{{cite web|last1=Helgason|first1=Guðmundur|title=HMS Hartland (Y 00)|url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/44.html|website=uboat.net|access-date=24 July 2015}} In November 1942, while taking part in Operation Reservist carrying American troops to seize the harbour of Oran, Algeria, she was sunk by gunfire from the French destroyer Typhon within the Oran Harbor taking 34 crew members with her.
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- {{citation |url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-16CGC-Hartland.htm |work=SERVICE HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2
|first= Geoffrey B |last=Mason |date=2005 |title=HMS HARTLAND (Y 00) - ex-US Coast Guard Cutter |editor=Gordon Smith}}
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Category:Ships of the United States Coast Guard
Category:World War II sloops of the United Kingdom