# USCGC Dexter (1925)

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For other ships with the same name, see [USCGC Dexter](/source/USCGC_Dexter).

History United States Name Dexter Namesake Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Dexter (1761-1816) Builder Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, Michigan Commissioned 1925 Decommissioned 1936 Fate Transferred to United States Navy 1936 General characteristics Class & type 100-foot patrol boat Displacement 210 tons Length 99 ft 8 in (30.38 m) Beam 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m) Draft 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m) Installed power 300 bhp (0.22 MW) Propulsion Two Grey Marine diesel engines; twin propellers Speed 12 knots maximum Complement 15 (1 warrant officer, 14 enlisted personnel) Armament 1 x 3-inch (76.2-millimeter) 23-caliber gun

**USCGC *Dexter***, was a [steel](/source/Steel)-[hulled](/source/Hull_(watercraft)) [patrol boat](/source/Patrol_boat) of the [United States Coast Guard](/source/United_States_Coast_Guard) in commission from 1925 to 1936. She was the third ship of the [United States Revenue Cutter Service](/source/United_States_Revenue_Cutter_Service) and [United States Coast Guard](/source/United_States_Coast_Guard) to bear the name.

*Dexter* was built by the [Defoe Boat and Motor Works](/source/Defoe_Shipbuilding_Company) at [Bay City](/source/Bay_City%2C_Michigan), [Michigan](/source/Michigan). She was [commissioned](/source/Ship_commissioning) into the Coast Guard in 1925.

*Dexter* was stationed at [Boston](/source/Boston), Massachusetts, from 1925 until 1927. She was then transferred to [Pascagoula](/source/Pascagoula%2C_Mississippi), [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi) late in 1927. By 1935 she had been transferred to [Buffalo](/source/Buffalo%2C_New_York), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)).

*Dexter* was [decommissioned](/source/Ship_decommissioning) in 1936. She was then transferred to the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy).

On June 19, 2010 *Dexter* (known as *Buccaneer*) was sunk in [Lake Michigan](/source/Lake_Michigan) as an [artificial reef](/source/Artificial_reef).

*Dexter* is also a ship of some historical significance. During her tenure as a revenue cutter she sank the Canadian rum running sloop *[I'm Alone](/source/I'm_Alone)* in the [Gulf of Mexico](/source/Gulf_of_Mexico), in 1929. While *I'm Alone* had allegedly been sighted within U.S. territorial waters, the actual sinking occurred in international waters, 200 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. One crew member from the sloop was killed during the sinking, he was a French national. This created quite an international incident[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] involving Canada, Britain and France. The resulting lawsuit was settled in 1936.

After being stricken from the U.S. Coast Guard rolls in 1936, the Dexter was turned over to the U.S. Navy, in Buffalo New York, and renamed YP-63. She saw action during World War II patrolling in the Caribbean, based out of Trinidad, on the Atlantic Sea Frontier. She is officially cited in the "Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II". On June 16, 1942, YP-63 (ex-USCGC *Dexter*) and the coastal yacht *Opal* rescued 91 survivors from three successive merchant ships sunk by the German U boats: *U-126*, *U-161* and *U-502*.

After the war she was acquired by various private interests. She saw service as a recreational [fishing vessel](/source/Fishing_vessel) off Boston, an oil drilling services vessel off Louisiana and finally ended up in Chicago, as a pirate themed party boat. It is ironic that this vessel, originally created to enforce prohibition, became the MV *Buccaneer*, dedicated to providing quantities of booze to her willing customers.

For three years *Buccaneer* was at a marina on the Little Calumet River being prepared for sinking in Lake Michigan as a dive attraction. She was finally sunk in Lake Michigan on June 18, 2010. She now rests as an artificial reef in 74 ft. of water about eight miles off the coast of Chicago.

## References

- [United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: *Dexter*, 1925](http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Dexter1925.asp)

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1929 Shipwrecks 2 Jan: Malakoff 16 Jan: Hsin Wah 12 Feb: Alloway 19 Feb: Kanowna 22 Mar: I'm Alone 25 Mar: Muggia 29 Mar: Selje 26 May: Aleutian 9 Jul: HMS H47 17 Jul: USS General Alava 1 Aug: Asakaze 30 Aug: San Juan 7 Sep: Kuru 9 Sep: Andaste 11 Sep: Acielle 2 Oct: Commandant Bultinck 22 Oct: Milwaukee 29 Oct: Wisconsin 31 Oct: Senator 4 Nov: Gilbert San 29 Nov: Norwich City 7 Dec: Ägir 18 Dec: Fort Victoria Unknown date: San Antonio Other incidents 5 Jan: Siboney 20 Jan: President Garfield 29 Jan: City of Cairo 28 Feb: Liberty Glo 7 Mar: Thétis 10 Mar: Pengreep 22 Mar: USCGC Dexter 25 Mar: Germaine L D 26 Mar: Europa 28 Mar: Libia 30 Mar: Naïade 6 Apr USS Childs 7 Apr Paris 18 Apr Paris 27 Apr: Duchess of Richmond April (unknown date) Franconia 15 May: Irwell May (unknown date): Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Rothesay 9 Jul: HMS L12 11 Jul: I-55, Kinugasa 3 Aug: Medway Queen 9 Aug: Viceroy of India 20 Aug Paris September (unknown date): Binnendijk, Eider 5 Oct: NRP Adamastor 12 Oct: USFS Widgeon 13 Oct: Empress of Canada 19 Oct: Bowes Castle 20 Oct: USAT Liberty 6 Nov: Barbana G 13 Nov: Ro-63 22 Nov: Parizhskaya Kommuna 7 Dec: Aba 18 Dec: Algonquin 24 Dec: Roosevelt 1928 1930

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