USCGC Sassafras (WLB-401)
 The Sassafras is a C-Class 180 ft seagoing buoy tender constructed for the USCG by Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Corp. of Duluth Minnesota. The Sass was one of 39 tenders commissioned for duties that would include aids-to-navigation ice breaking search-and-rescue fire fighting law enforcement providing fuel and potable water and assistance to the National Oceanographic and Seismographic Survey.