1938: 2 x Cooper-Bessemer EN-9 600 bhp diesel engines USCGC Travis (WSC-153) was a US Coast Guard Active-class patrol boat cutter.

Travis operated out of Stapleton, N.Y., Morehead City, N.C., and Rockland, Maine, successively, through the 1930s.

The latter port served as her home base from 1937 to the summer of 1941, when the Coast Guard was placed under naval control for the duration of World War II.

On 20 December, she came across the disabled freighter Maltran which was in danger of running aground on a poorly charted rocky shore.

Eventually, the little group successfully navigated the dangerous uncharted waters and emerged to make passage to the swept channel at Argentia.