The 95 foot patrol boat was originally developed as shallow draft ASW boat and as a replacement for the aging, World War II vintage, wooden 83 foot patrol boats that were used mostly for search and rescue duties. With the outbreak of the Korean War and the requirement tasked to the Coast Guard to secure and patrol port facilities in the United States under the Magnuson Act of 1950, the complete replacement of the 83 foot boat was deferred and the 95 foot boat was used for harbor patrols. The first 95 foot hulls were laid down at the Coast Guard Yard in 1952 and were officially described as "seagoing patrol cutters". Because Coast Guard policy did not provide for naming cutters under 100 feet at the time of their construction they were referred to by their hull number only and gained the "C