USCG 65' Small harbor tug
# USCG 65' Small harbor tug

The USCG 65' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the United States Coast Guard for search and rescue, law enforcement, aids-to-navigation work and light icebreaking. The tugs are capable of breaking 18 in (0.46 m) of ice with propulsion ahead and 21 in (0.53 m) of ice backing and ramming. They were designed with steel hulls to replace the 64 ft (20 m) wooden-hulled tugs that had been in service since the 1940s and were built by Gibbs Gas Engine Company, Jacksonville, Florida; Barbour Boat Works of New Bern, North Carolina; and Western Boat Builders Corporation, Tacoma, Washington from 1961 to 1967. They were originally powered by a single 400 horsepower diesel engine, however several have been re-powered with 500 horsepower main drive engines since they were constructed.

## Ships

| Name and hull number | Builder | Commissioned | Disposition or homeport |
| - | - | - | - |
| USCGC Capstan (WYTL-65601) | Gibbs | 19 July 1961 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| USCGC Chock (WYTL-65602) | Gibbs | 12 September 1962 | Baltimore, Maryland |
| USCGC Swivel (WYTL-65603) | Gibbs | 27 October 1961 | Decommissioned on 14 April 1995 |
| USCGC Tackle (WYTL-65604) | Gibbs | 1962 | Rockland, Maine |
| USCGC Towline (WYTL-65605) | Gibbs | 27 March 1962 | Decommissioned in 1995 |
| USCGC Catenary (WYTL-65606) | Gibbs | April 1962 | Decommissioned on 1 May 1995 |
| USCGC Bridle (WYTL-65607) | Barbour | 3 April 1963 | Southwest Harbor, Maine |
| USCGC Pendant (WYTL-65608) | Barbour | August 1963 | Boston, Massachusetts |
| USCGC Shackle (WYTL-65609) | Barbour | 7 May 1963 | South Portland, Maine |
| USCGC Hawser (WYTL-65610) | Barbour | 17 January 1963 | Bayonne, New Jersey |
| USCGC Line (WYTL-65611) | Barbour | 21 February 1963 | Bayonne, New Jersey |
| USCGC Wire (WYTL-65612) | Barbour | 19 March 1963 | Saugerties, New York |
| USCGC Bitt (WYTL-65613) | Western | 27 May 1963 | Decommissioned on 4 October 1982 |
| USCGC Bollard (WYTL-65614) | Western | 10 April 1967 | New Haven, Connecticut |
| USCGC Cleat (WYTL-65615) | Western | 10 May 1967 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
