USCGC TRAVIS WPC-17

USCGC TRAVIS WPC-17

USCG cutter TRAVIS at O’Hara’s Wharf, Rockland. Stern view. USCGC TRAVIS --a steel-hulled, twin-screw, diesel-powered Active Class Coast Guard cutter built in 1927 at Camden, N.J., by the American Brown Boveri Corp.--was commissioned in mid- or late 1927, with Boatswain's Mate J. S. Turner in charge. Built to combat the rum-running trade, TRAVIS operated out of Stapleton, N.Y., Morehead City, N.C., and Rockland, Maine, successively, through the 1930's. The latter port served as her home base from 1937 to the summer of 1941, when the Coast Guard was placed under naval control for the duration of the national emergency brought on by the war in Europe.