USS Manhasset ( AG - 47 ) USS " Manhasset " ( AG - 47 / YAG - 8 ) – later known as USCGC " Manhasset " ( WIX - 276 ) – was a commercial cargo ship leased by the U . S . Navy during World War II . She was armed with guns and depth charge s and was used as a weather patrol ship , a convoy escort , and as a patrol craft . She experienced action in the dangerous North Atlantic Ocean , but returned home safely after war ' s end . Constructed in Maryland . " Manhasset " ( AG 47 ) was built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Sparrows Point , Maryland , in 1923 as merchantman " Wilton " ; acquired by the U . S . Maritime Commission from her owner , Eastern Steamship Lines , Inc . , in 1941 ; transferred under time charter to the Navy 2 January 1942 ; renamed " Manhasset " and reclassified from " YAG - 8 " to " AG - 47 " on 30 May 1942 ; converted for use as a weather patrol ship by Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp . , Brooklyn , New York ; and loaned to the U . S . Coast Guard and commissioned 8 August 1942 , Lt . Comdr . P . L . Stinson , USCG , in command . World War II operations . Equipped with specialized meteorological instruments , " Manhasset " joined the weather patrol in the North Atlantic Ocean to gather vital weather information used in compiling forecasts for Allied European operations against the Axis . She braved the dangers of stormy seas and the menace of German U - boat s while operating her assigned and isolated patrol areas out of Argentia , Newfoundland , and Boston , Massachusetts . She averaged about one patrol a month , usually about three weeks long . " Manhasset " also patrolled and searched for German submarines . While cruising midway between Flemish Cap and Cape Farewell , Greenland , she depth charge d a suspected U - boat , with no positive results , 27 April 1943 . The following week convoy ONI - 5 steamed through her patrol station , and on 5 May she provided support during one of the most savage convoy battles of World War II . The slow 43 ship convoy was attacked by U - boats between late 4 May and early 6 May . Although the convoy lost 13 ships during the hazardous passage from the United Kingdom to New York City , courageous escorts sank five submarine s and repulsed the remainder . Never again did German submarines attack in such force . As " Manhasset " patrolled near the British merchant ship " Dolius " , torpedo ed and abandoned earlier in the day but still afloat , she made sound contact with a submarine late in the afternoon . She made six vigorous depth charge attacks and sighted first a periscope wake followed by an oil slick . However , she sighted no wreckage and broke off attack to guard the torpedoed ship after more than 2 hours of searching . Transferred to the Coast Guard . " Manhasset " contained her weather station patrols during the rest of the war . The Navy transferred her to the U . S . Coast Guard 22 October 1943 , and her name was struck from the Navy List 30 October 1943 . Post - war dispositioning . On 15 October 1945 she was decommissioned by the Coast Guard , and , on 16 October 1946 , she was sold . Her subsequent fate is not known . My father , Edgar Warren Stevanus USN was one of four weathermen on the Manhasset the last 18 or so months of the war . He was the only Navy person on an otherwise all Coast Guard crew . The weathermen worked in 2 ' s , 12 hours on and 12 hours off seven days a week . Edgar Stevanus is a retired Postmaster and lives in Sugarcreek , Ohio .