The Coast Guard built 207 41-foot Utility Boat Larges at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, from 1973 to 1978 at a cost of $235,000 each, and this class became one of the most successful boats in Coast Guard history, serving for 41 years as the general workhorse at multi-mission stations under moderate weather and sea conditions where speed and maneuverability were crucial. Primarily used for search and rescue, their missions expanded to include boating safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, security of ports, waterways and coasts, and defense operations associated with homeland security. Since entering service in 1973, the class conducted over 350,000 sorties, saved over $400 million in property, and saved over 41,800 lives. Starting in the early 1990s, minor stress cracks developed in the aluminum hulls of some boats from wear and tear. While at Station Milwaukee, CG-41410 was pulled from the water and cannibalized for parts to keep other 41s in the group going, but it was later fully repaired and returned to service, participating in countless search and rescue cases and other operations. As these aging boats were gradually retired beginning in 2008, CG-41410 became the last Utility Boat Large in service and was decommissioned at Grand Haven, Michigan, on July 31, 2014. It had entered service on July 1, 1977, at Station Milwaukee and served at several Lake Michigan stations over the next 37 years, including two assignments at the Sturgeon Bay Canal Station from April 26, 2002, to August 15, 2003, and from June 12, 2007, to August 6, 2007, before its last stationing in Muskegon, Michigan. In Coast Guard tradition, gold hull numbers honor the oldest vessel in a class still in operation, and CG-41410 carried those numbers for the 41-foot Utility Boat Large class before retirement and continues to display them because it was the last operational vessel in its class. In April 2015, CG-41410 returned to Sturgeon Bay aboard a Coast Guard barge pushed by USCGC Mobile Bay from the Coast Guard facility in Milwaukee and was lifted into its final mooring place by a Bay Shipbuilding Company crew.