| Cutter | Nicknames |
| Acacia | "The Big A"; "Ace of the Great Lakes"; "Ace of the Lakes"; "The Ace"; "The Occasional" (after she ran aground in the St. Mary's River back in the 80's and bent the main engine block--she occasionally ran); |
| Active | "Inactive" (in the late 70s/early 80s when she spent most of her time moored due to 'horrendous' problems with her turbines) |
| Acushnet | "Mighty Acu"; "Squishnut"; "Crush-nuts"; "NOAAs ARK" (due to our support for their [NOAA's] weather ops); "Mighty A"; "Never Never Home Again" (a take-off on its call sign NNHA); |
| Adak | "RONC Isolation" |
| Agassiz | "Aggie"; "Agony" |
| Alert | "Fat Albert"; "Albert"; "Divert" (for its propensity for being diverted) |
| Anacapa | "Ana" |
| Androscoggin | "Andy"; "Big Andy"; "Rotten Andy"; "Galloping Ghost of the Florida Coast"; "Creeping Crud of the Florida Mud"; |
| Apalachee | "RONC Fast Attack Tug"; "Apple" |
| Aquidneck | "Equipment"; "Aquanut"; "Squidneck" (due to close proximity to Norfolk); |
| Attu | "Caribbean Ninjas" |
| Avoyel | "Olave Oyel" |
| Bainbridge Island | "Bain-barge"; "RONC Larry Bob #" |
| Balsam | "Snatcher Blossom" |
| Baranof | "Barren One"; "Bear Ran Off" |
| Barataria | "Bacteria"; "Burning Bee"; Dirty B" |
| Barbara Mabrity | "Babs"; "Babs Mab"; "The Pascagoula Protector" (for we are Senator Trent Lott's personal buoy tender) |
| Basswood | "Black Sheep of the Black Fleet"; "The 'Wood'"; |
| Bayberry | "Stayberry" |
| Bear | "RONC Ski Jump"; "ISC Portsmouth, Building 901 (nickname given because it's always in drydock)"; |
| Bering Straits | "The Straits" |
| Bibb | "Be-no Boat" (as in "there'll be no liberty"); "Big Iron Battle Boat"; "Boston's Iitty Bitty Baby"; "Mighty B"; "RONC Thunnus Albacares"; "Burning in Buzzard's Bay" (From her cold plant light-offs, she would black out the harbor temporarily, causing the ship to call local fire departments to inform them so they wouldn't receive so many calls next time.) |
| Biscayne Bay | "Biscuit"; "Sentinal of the Straits" |
| Bittersweet | "RONC Champion"; "The Bitterbarge"; "Black Sweet Bitter"; "Bittersweat" |
| Bollard | "Mighty Warship" |
| Boston (WLV-189) | "RONC Collision at Sea" |
| Boutwell | "Bad Smell"; "Batmobile"; "Bout Hell"; "RONC Abalone" |
| Bramble | "Arctic Aristocrats"; "The Bumble" |
| Bridle | "RONC Icicle" |
| Buckhorn | "Bucky" |
| Burton Island | "Hurtin' Burton"; "BI"; "White Antarctic Garbage Barge" [humorous definition of designation WAGB] |
| Buttonwood | "The Wad"; "The Mighty B" |
| Campbell | "Queen of the Fleet"; "Camp Bell"; "Soup Can"; "Camp-hell"; "RONC Shiny Deck" |
| Cape Carter | "Cape Crunch"; |
| Cape Corwin | "Cape McGarrett" (from its use in the television series "Hawaii Five-O) |
| Cape Cross | "RONC Cape Double-Cross" |
| Cape Fox | "Dry Dox" (She never sailed); |
| Cape George | "Bathtub Ring"; "RONC Cape Chicken" |
| Cape Hatteras | "RONC Cape Outer Banks"; "Cape Hazardous" |
| Cape Henlopen | "RONC Cape Terrific"; "Cape Chickenlopen" |
| Cape Higgon | "RONC Cape Courageous" |
| Cape Horn | "RONC Cape Seldom" |
| Cape Jellison | "Tuff Boat"; "Cape J" |
| Cape Knox | "Cape Cutthroat" |
| Cape Morgan | "RONC Cape Anchor"; "The Workhorse of the Sea" |
| Cape Shoalwater | "Bilgewater" |
| Cape Small | "Three Puka Puka" (from her hull number 95300 and the Hawaiian word for zero--puka); |
| Cape Upright | "Cape Up-All Night" (Seemed like most of our boardings were during the night); Cape Uptight"; "Cape Downright" (1964--always rough seas when called); |
| Cartigan | "Galloping Ghost of the Yucatan Coast" |
| Castle Rock | "The Rock"; "McKenna's Gold" (taken from the name of a former commanding officer, Captain McKenna and the movie of the same name); |
| Chase | "Cha-Zea"; "RONC Proud Mary V" |
| Chandeleur | "Candy-Lure"; "Chandelier"; "Chat"; "Caribbean Knights"; "Semper Roto" (Always Broken); "Chandi"; "Casrep"; "Shark 19"; "Migrant Taxi"; "Big 'C'" |
| Chautauqua | "Cha-Cha"; "Chat" |
| Chilula | "Chinchilla"; "Choo Choo"; "Galloping Ghost of the Graveyard of the Atlantic"; "Guardian of the Graveyard of the Atlantic"; "Pig Boat"; "RONC Honeymoon"; "Hotel Chilula" (because it never left the dock); |
| Chincoteague | "Chickenfeed"; "Chinco-Pig"; |
| Chokeberry | "Chokecherry"; "Chuck Berry"; "Choke-boat"; "Chuckleberry" |
| Citrus | "Sit and Rust"; "RONC White Needle of Death" |
| Clamp | "RONC Lone Star"; "Cramp" |
| Cleat | "RONC Steamer" |
| Clover | "Sea Lover" |
| Comanche | "Co-Manch!"; "Pregnant Marshmallow" (she used to toss and turn like a buffalo in a wallow, without a lot of provocation); |
| Confidence | "Building 619" (from her days in Kodiak; [nickname was] from us Support Center types, because she never, ever got underway); "Connie"; "Con Fid Ence"; "Coni"; "RONC Rocket"; "White Fang"; "The Galloping Ghost of the Siberian Coast"; "The Big Fid"; |
| Cook Inlet | "Cookie Cutter"; Cookie Maru" |
| Coos Bay | "Booze Bay"; "Cockeyed Coos"; |
| USS Cor Caroli | "Coca Cola"; "Ole Coke" |
| Courageous | "Outrageous!"; "Rage" |
| Cowslip | "Cow's Lip"; "RONC Meadow Muffin"; "RONC That's No Bull"; "The Mighty Moo" (Since we had a number of ex Navy men aboard after WW2, they nicknamed [her] after the USS Missouri); "CGC Charlie" (got the nickname from the crew of the Mariposa because every time a buoy of theirs broke they would go into Charlie and we would have to go fix it); |
| Cushing | "Bad to the Bone" |
| Cuttyhunk | "Kittychunks"; "Hunk of Junk"; "Pest of the West"; "Cutter-Junk" |
| Dallas | "Big D"; "Roadrunner" (all 378's were nicknamed for Warner Brothers characters prior to the FRAM program); "Battleship Dallas" (from her service in Vietnam); "Dullest"; "The Mighty Warship"; "Gallapig"; "The CGC Tilt" (After a recent patrol the CGC Dallas scraped the pier prompting the VSF to dub the boat The CGC Tilt because there was a very obvious list to port); |
| Dauntless | "The Dirty D"; "White Needle of Death" |
| Decisive | "The Finest Kind"; "In-Decisive"; "White Ghost of the Gulf Coast"; "RONC Ben Franklin" |
| Dependable | "The Big D"; "Galloping Ghost of the Gulf Coast"; |
| Diligence | "Dillie Devils" (her crew); "DAU 3" (this was painted on the hull by crewman of the Dauntless as a practical joke); "Dilly"; "RONC Not Yet"; WMEC-616 = "We Must Eat Chicken 616 days a year (because we ate chicken at every meal--or so it seemed); "Dili-O"; |
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