 In 1948, a US Naval Mission arrived in Haiti.The transport "Vertières" sank in 1951 and was replaced by the "Artibonite", a LCT which had been previously wrecked on the Haitian coast and was subsequently salvaged.The Coast Guard remained this way until the "Admiral Killick" was stricken in 1954 and was replaced by a US-sourced buoy tender given the same name in 1955.