The USCGC Mallow (WLB-396) was a Iris-class buoy tender belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 9 December 1943 and commissioned on 6 June 1944.

This was connected up to two Westinghouse generators which were driven by two Cooper Bessemer GND-8 four-cycle diesel engines.

[2] Upon being commissioned in June 1944, Mallow was assigned to the 12th Coast Guard District and homeported in San Francisco where she was used for ATON in the Pacific until the end of World War II.

In February 1958, Mallow assisted Yuma with towing Tinian 6 miles south of Swiftsure Bank.

In February 1989, she assisted with recovering debris from the United Airlines Flight 811 crash off Hawaii.