aft deck. She also was equipped with mousetrap anti-submarine rockets. All of this armament was removed in 1966 leaving Evergreen with only small arms for law enforcement actions. At the time of construction, Evergreen was designated WAGL, an auxiliary vessel, lighthouse tender. Her namesake was the evergreen tree, in conformance with the Coast Guard tradition of naming buoy tenders after trees and shrubs. World War II service (19421945) Evergreen began her World War II service with brief postings in the Great Lakes and Charleston, South Carolina. She was then home-ported in Boston, where she spent the remainder of the war. Her primary mission was weather patrol in the North Atlantic. Between August 1943 and July 1944 she sailed from Boston, Portland, or Agentia out to designated points in the ocean to take weather readings which were radioed back to shore. These trips typically lasted about three weeks. This timely, mid-ocean weather data allowed military planners to route aircraft directly from the United States to England, saving the long delay in shipping aircraft by freighter. She rotated on these weather patrols With USCGC Sorrel and USCGC Conifer.On 26 July 1944 she departed Argentia, escorting two merchant ships to Greenland. On 31 July she made a sonar contact and fired 16 anti-submarine projectiles at what was later concluded to be either whales or a cold water layer in the ocean. She arrived at Narsarssuaq on 1 August 1944. She patrolled up the east coast of Greenland to Cape Pansch, and supplied remote military bases including radio direction finding stations attempting to localize German U-boats and German weather stations in Greenland. On 19 November 1944 Evergreen landed a party of 27 soldiers on the east coast of Greenland to investigate possible enemy activity. She broke channels through the ice to allow other ships to reach port on several occasions. Evergreen sailed to the United States for repairs at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in February 1945, but returned to Greenland in April 1945. She continued her work supplying remote bases, icebreaking, and building and maintaining aids to navigation. As World War II ended in Europe, her work went into reverse. She evacuated men from their remote bases. On 28 September 1945 she completed the evacuation of Cape Dan. Post-war service (19451964) After the war Evergreen remained based at Boston. She serviced remote LORAN stations in the North Atlantic and was involved in a number