David Tucker
Patrol Boat · Bahamas · Lost 1997 · The Bahamas
A former US Coast Guard cutter donated to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and renamed for a fallen marine, later scuttled beside Nassau's Clifton Wall as a dive site.
The Vessel and Her Loss
Originally the US Coast Guard cutter Cape Upright, the vessel was transferred to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in 1989 and renamed David Tucker, honoring a marine killed in the 10 May 1980 Cuban attack on HMBS Flamingo. Decommissioned in 1996, she was donated to Nassau's artificial reef program and deliberately sunk by Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas in 1997 along the edge of the Clifton Wall drop-off, where she remains a popular combination wreck-and-wall dive.
Vessel
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- Steel
- 92 ft
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- Diesel
- US Coast Guard (as Cape Upright); Royal Bahamas Defence Force (from 1989)
Loss
- January 1, 1997
- Intentional sinking
- Off southwestern New Providence, near Clifton Wall
- Tongue of the Ocean approach, New Providence
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The Wreck Today
- 38-50
- Intact, resting parallel to the Clifton Wall drop-off
- Bow to the east, stern to the west
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Position
- 25.01° N 77.56° W
- Approximate position
- Clifton Wall, New Providence
Derived from published dive-site coordinates (25 0.517N 77 33.404W).
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (65/100)
The cutter's original US Coast Guard service history and build year are not established in the sources reviewed.
Former name, transfer date, memorial naming, decommissioning and scuttling.
Length, depth, and scuttling year.
