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|Ship name=   USS ''Monomoy''
|Ship namesake=   A point and island off the west coast of [[Cape Cod]] in [[Nantucket]] Shoals
|Ship owner=1918: {{USSB|first=only}}<br>before 1941: Steel Products Transportation Company, [[Buffalo, New York]]
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|Ship acquired=                15 September 1941 as ''J. Floyd Massey, Jr.''
|Ship commissioned=        24 December 1941 as USS ''Monomoy'' (AG-40)
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'''USS ''Monomoy'' (AG-40)''' was a commercial [[cargo ship]] acquired by the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She was outfitted with guns and [[depth charge]]s and sent into the dangerous waters of the North [[Atlantic Ocean]] to report on weather conditions and to act as escort vessel when required. She was manned by a [[U.S. Coast Guard]] crew and was eventually transferred to that agency as '''USCGC ''Monomoy'' (WAG-275)'''.

== Built in Minnesota ==
''Monomoy'' (AG-40) was built In 1918 by Globe Shipbuilding Co., [[Duluth, Minnesota]]; acquired as ''J. Floyd Massey, Jr''. 15 September 1941 from Steel Products Transportation Company, [[Buffalo, New York]]; renamed ''Monomoy'' 15 October 1941; and commissioned 24 December 1941.
 
== World War II Navy service ==
''Monomoy'', manned and operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, joined the Weather Patrol, [[U.S. Atlantic Fleet]], in 1942. From her base at [[Boston, Massachusetts]], she periodically sailed to weather stations 1 and 2, where she provided weather reports vital for the safety of [[convoy]]s and air commerce. 

Operating in dangerous waters, she made frequent contact with marauding [[submarine]]s. Attacked by a [[Nazi]][[ U-boat]] 24 July, she returned fire, damaging the submarine, forcing it to break off action. 

She continued patrolling the North [[Atlantic Ocean]] for the next 15 months, and despite enemy harassment and rough seas, was able to render valuable service to those crossing the Atlantic. 

==Transferred to the Coast Guard ==
She was formally transferred to the Coast Guard 22 October 1943, and stricken from the [[Naval Register]] 30 October. Redesignated ''WAG-275'', ''Monomoy'' served the Coast Guard through the remainder of the war and was then transferred to the [[U.S. Maritime Commission]]. She was scrapped in 1951.
 
== See also ==

* [[United States Navy]]
* [[United States Coast Guard]]
* [[World War II]]

==References ==
* {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m13/monomoy.htm}} 
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/49/49040.htm NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - AG-40 Monomoy - USCGC Monomoy (WAG-275)]

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