USCGC Forsythia explained
USCGC Forsythia (WAGL-63/WLR-63), was a 114-foot, 230-ton
buoy tender of the
United States Coast Guard. It was one of three such vessels (her sisters were the and) built to replace the stern
paddlewheel steamers that the Coast Guard decided were too expensive to maintain. She was built by Avondale Marine Ways of
Westwego, Louisiana, and entered service in 1943. She was stationed at
Sewickley, Pennsylvania until 1963, and then
Memphis, Tennessee, until she was decommissioned in 1977