CG-249 was a wooden-hulled patrol vessel in commission in the fleet of the United States Coast Guard.

She was laid down at the Jacksonville, Florida shipyard of Gibbs Gas Engine Company, one of 203 "Six-Bitters" ordered by the United States Coast Guard.

[4] The date of her launching and completion is uncertain although the class design was finalized in April 1924 and all of the Six-Bitters were commissioned by 1925.

[5] A member of the boarded ship, Horace Alderman, murdered two Coast Guardsmen including her commanding officer, Boatswain Sidney C. Sanderlin, and a Secret Service agent before being subdued by the remainder of the crew.

[4][5] Alderman was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death; he was hung at the Coast Guard station at Bahia Mar, Florida on 17 August 1929.