USCGC Woodrush (WLB-407)

USCGC Woodrush (WLB-407) was a 180-foot seagoing buoy tender commissioned by the United States Coast Guard in 1944. Throughout her service, Woodrush was primarily assigned to aids to navigation duties, icebreaking, and search and rescue operations in the Great Lakes and later in Alaska. Notably, she played a key role in the 1975 search and recovery efforts following the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. After over five decades of service, Woodrush was decommissioned in 2001 and later transferred to the Ghana Navy.