We apologize for the lack of updates regarding the USCGC Bramble over the last 18 months or so. As you can imagine some personal, local, as well as global, issues have prevented getting around to posting information on this site.
For those unaware, the Bramble was sold on December 4th, 2019, by court order, to Modern American Recycling Services (MARS), who have previously purchased other USCGC’s of the same design. The future plans for the vessel have yet to be disclosed. (More information can be found here and here)
As such the vessel is unlikely to see any passage, sailings or further activity without some intervention from the USCG, a team of well-wishers or other entity willing to take on the time and expense of keeping one of the last 180 foot buoy tenders afloat.
Meanwhile, this website will remain active through to the 19th March 2024 when the current registration expires for both domains. (uscgcbramble.org and uscgc-bramble.com) For all inquiries regarding this website please contact us at info@uscgc-bramble.com.
Any update on her status?
I have no updates on the vessel currently.
scrapped in 2023 in Mobile, AL
I’m assuming Bramble is but a memory. The last recorded location is at Alabama shipyards and she was seized to pay for debts. I don’t see her on Google satellite photos.
So my first ship is just a memory. I was on board her from the end of September 1965 to mid-September 1966 when I went on to YN school. I made SN on the buoy deck and will always be proud of my service on her under BM Hopper, Chief Lucas and CHBOSN Todd with Gordon D. Hall as Captain.. There was nothing like icebreaking- I have a photo taken by Blanchard of the Detroit News while I was on the helm in the famous ice breaking trip to Sault Ste. Marie in January 1966. We were the only ship out there and had to stop and smash ice off the topsides with mallets in the middle of the night..
There was nothing like coming up the Detroit River eating watermelon or ice cream out on the buoy deck on a hot summer day after a mission downriver. Coming into our berth at CG Base Detroit we would cause the Mount Elliott Fishing Club of locals to pull in their lines I was just a four year man but proud to serve and hope maybe a reunion on one of the surviving 180s in the Lakes will be possible. Former shipmates email me.
I served with some great guys and hope some will read this and get in touch. It’s a long time since then and many are gone but some my age might still be kicking.