fired a total 4,684 rounds of /38 ammunition, consisting of high explosive, white phosphorus, and illumination projectiles during these missions. The Minnetonka had 49 underway replenishments, receiving food, ammunition, mail, and personnel during her deployment to Southeast Asia. She steamed total of 59,685 miles, leaving Long Beach, California on 17 December 1967 and returning on 17 October 1968. Return to peacetime service After her stint in Vietnam, Minnetonka returned to peacetime service until her decommissiong a few years later. A fatal accident occurred on 20 June 1972. One person was killed and two were seriously injured when a hot-water heater exploded while the cutter was in Long Beach. Decommissioning Minnetonka was decommissioned on 31 May 1974 and was laid-up at the U.S. Coast Guard Base, Alameda, California until she was scrapped two years later. Footnotes References Minnetonka WHEC-67, United States' Coast Guard website. Scheina, Robert L.: U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981, pp. 1–3. Scheina, Robert L.: U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946-1990 Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990, pp. 18–26. Owasco-class cutters Ships of the United States Coast Guard Vietnam War patrol vessels of the United States Ships built in Los Angeles 1945 ships