of search and rescue missions. In August 1947 she towed the disabled 90-foot fishing boat Dartmouth 450 miles back to Gloucester. In September 1947 she took in tow the disabled Army transport Flemish Bend off Newfoundland. A celebrity rescue took place in September 1953, when Evergreen rescued Malcolm Forbes, publisher of Forbes Magazine, when his yacht broke down in the path of an advancing hurricane. On 25 July 1956 the Italian liner Andrea Doria, with 1706 passengers and crew aboard, collided with the liner Stockholm off Nantucket and began to sink. Andrea Doria had 1,706 passengers and crew aboard. Evergreen, returning to Boston from ice patrol, was diverted to the scene. She arrived at 8:06 am on 26 July 1956 and took command of the rescue effort. By that time there was little she could do. She radioed, "S.S. Andrea Doria sank in 225 feet of water at 10:09 A.M." After the sinking, Evergreen searched an 80-square mile area around the wreck for 40 people that had not been accounted for. She found none. She was joined by USCGC Yakutat and USCGC Fredrick Lee in recovering floating debris from the site. The Coast Guard ended this effort on 30 July. In April 1948 Evergreen was the first buoy tender assigned to the International Ice Patrol. In this mission she would sail into the North Atlantic during the spring thaw. While off the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Greenland, she would assess conditions that could carry dangerous icebergs into shipping lanes. This was the first off a decades-long series of ice patrol cruises. While on these patrols crewmen and visiting scientists sampled water temperatures using Nansen bottles, and currents using a geomagnetic electrokinetograph. She deployed a deep-sea buoy to collect oceanographic data. Between 1948 and 1986 Evergreen was on ice patrol at least thirty-four times. Oceanographic vessel (19641982) In 1964, Evergreen was converted to an oceanographic vessel and re-designated WAGO-295. She was the first dedicated oceanographic vessel in the Coast Guard's history. During the conversion, a PDP-5 computer was installed, and Evergreen became the first government oceanographic ship to have one. As an oceanographic vessel, she was also converted from a black-hull paint scheme to a white-hull paint scheme, which she wore until decommissioned. Her ice patrol duties continued under her new designation, and extended further into the Arctic. In 1964 she explored Kennedy Channel, north of Baffin Bay, with a