Originally cutter #50, she was named for Lake Itasca, built by General Engineering and Drydock at Oakland, California, and launched on 16 November 1929. On transfer to the RN she became HMS Gorleston after the East Anglian port of Gorleston on 30 May 1941. She was uniquely armed with ten .50 caliber and two 20 mm machine guns in place of the 3"/50 and four 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns carried by the remainder of the class. Her career was mostly spent on convoy escorts from West Africa and India. She was the escort leader for convoy SL 87,Blair 1996 pp.381–383 and escorted convoy SL 118.Blair 1996 p.672 She was returned on 23 April 1946, redesignated USCGC Itasca and scrapped in 1950.
