New kid on the quay

We got a new treasure the other day: The Coast Guard Cutter Ingham, the most decorated, longest-serving vessel in U.S. maritime history, and the floating memorial to the 912 U.S. Coast Guardsmen killed in Korea and Vietnam.

At 327 feet, she dwarfs the Mohawk, the 165-foot cutter that was the first ship in Memorial Park on the Truman Waterfront.

The Ingham was commissioned in 1936, and saw action in World War II, Korea, Vietnam -- even the Mariel boatlift -- fully functional until 1988, when she went to a Charleston maritime museum.

Both the Ingam and the Mohawk were based in Greenland for World War II, battling Nazi vessels to defend American convoys -- and the Ingham is credited with sinking at least one U-boat, while the Mohawk rescued hundreds of survivors of convoy-ship sinkings. Fitting that they're birthed together again.