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The USCGC Salvia (WLB-400) was a Iris-class buoy tender belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 19 September 1943 and commissioned on 19 February 1944.

Career
After receiving her commission, the Salvia was assigned to ATON and icebreaking duties in the Great Lakes. In May of 1944, she was assigned to the 5th Coast Guard District and stationed in Portsmouth where she remained until the end of World War II.

After the war, she was homeported in Mobile and continued to perform general ATON. In April 1951 she was disabled in Calasieu Pass and was towed back to port by USCGC Tampa (WPG-164). In December of 1968 Salvia searched for survivors from the lost USCGC White Alder (WLM-541).