USCG CG-249

She was laid down at the Jacksonville, Florida shipyard of Gibbs Gas Engine Company, one of 203 "Six-Bitters" ordered by the United States Coast Guard.^[3][2] She was designed for long-range picket and patrol duty during Prohibition for postings 20 to 30 miles from shore.^[4] The date of her launching and completion is uncertain although the class design was finalized in April 1924 and all of the Six-Bitters were commissioned by 1925.^[4] She was commissioned in 1924/1925 as CG-249.^[3] On 7 August 1927, her crew boarded a ship suspected of transporting alcohol off the coast of Florida.^[5] A member of the boarded ship, Horace Alderman, murdered two Coast Guardsmen including her commanding officer, Boatswain Sidney C. Sanderlin, and a Secret Service agent before being subdued by the remainder of the crew.^[4][5] Alderman was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death; he was hung at the Coast Guard station at Bahia Mar, Florida on 17 August 1929.^[5] She was struck from the register in 1930/1931.^[3]