USS Lamar ( PCE - 899 ) USS " Lamar " ( PCE - 899 ) / USCGC " Lamar " ( WTR - 899 ) was a " PCE - 842 " - class patrol craft acquired by the U . S . Navy during World War II for the task of patrolling assigned ocean areas or protecting larger ships in convoy . " PCR - 899 " was laid down as " PC - 899 " on 11 January 1943 by Willamette Iron & Steel Corporation in Portland , Oregon . She was reclassified " PCE - 899 " on 28 March 1943 . She was launched on 11 August 1943 and was sponsored by Mrs . Opha McClimans . She was commissioned on 17 March 1945 under the command of LT Charles E . Pigg , Jr . World War II service . After shakedown along the U . S . West Coast , " PCE - 899 " departed San Pedro , California , on 5 May for the Marianas . Steaming via Pearl Harbor and Eniwetok , she reached Guam on 12 June and began weather station patrols out of Apra Harbor . Assigned to SerForPac , she gathered weather data in an area west of the Marianas . Placed in " caretaker status " 27 June 1946 at Apra , she resumed active status on 12 September under the command of LT M . H . Seaver . End - of - war operations . Resuming weather reporting patrols in waters between the Marianas and the Carolines , " PCE - 899 " operated out of Guam until 26 August 1948 when she departed her patrol area for Pearl Harbor . Reaching Pearl Harbor 9 September , she served there for more than three months , then sailed for Guam on 22 December . She arrived 1 January 1949 , made periodic patrols for five months and departed for the U . S . West Coast on 1 August . Steaming via Kwajalein and Pearl Harbor , she arrived San Diego , California , on 27 October . Five days later she headed for the U . S . East Coast , arriving Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , 25 November . " PCE - 899 " decommissioned on 16 December 1949 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . Recommissioned as a training ship . Towed from Philadelphia to Milwaukee , Wisconsin in 1950 , " PCE - 899 " recommissioned on 13 December 1950 under the command of LT L . C . Riley . Assigned to the 9th Naval District , she served as a U . S . Naval Reserve training ship out of Milwaukee . For more than 13 years she provided valuable service in training and maintaining the fighting excellence of officers and men of the Naval Reserve . Renamed " Lamar " ( " PE - 899 " ) on 15 February 1956 , she primarily cruised the upper Great Lakes . From 17 August 1959 to 17 October she made a training cruise that sent her via the St . Lawrence River and Nova Scotia to Newport , Rhode Island . Lamar converted for U . S . Coast Guard use . " Lamar " completed service in the Great Lakes on 6 April 1964 and sailed to Philadelphia , arriving 28 April . She decommissioned 25 May and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . Her name was struck from the Naval Register in June 1964 and transferred to the U . S . Coast Guard on 29 July 1964 . She was converted for use at the Coast Guard Yard and was commissioned there on 11 September 1965 under the command of LCDR William T . Rockwell , Jr . , USCG . She was assigned as a reserve training vessel to Monterey , California , where she provided training for reservists from the 11th , 12th , 13th , and 14th Coast Guard Districts . Her authorized complement was 39 officers and men and she was equipped to carry 57 trainees . She was also available for limited search and rescue patrols if needed . Supporting the Cuban Patrol in the Straits of Florida . En route to Monterey , she was diverted to assist the Cuban Patrol in the Straits of Florida in October 1965 during an increase in the number of migrants leaving Cuba for Florida . She was detached from this duty and set a course for Monterey on 18 November . She arrived in Monterey on 14 December and was assigned as the training ship for the Western Districts Reserve Training program . LCDR Ernest Bizzozero , USCG , became her commanding officer on 10 June 1967 . The Coast Guard decommissioned her on 30 September 1969 . On 8 November 1971 she was sold to the Foison Industries Corporation in Taiwan for $ 23 , 300 .