Keel laid, September 11, 1935
  Launched, January 8, 1937
  Commissioned, March 1, 1937

• Treasury Class Cruising Cutter: W-36 USS Spencer
• Displacement: 2750 tons (full load)
• Length: 327'
• Beam: 41'
• Draft: 13'
• Armament: 2 5"/38, 6x2 40mm, 8 20mm
• Speed: 20 knots; range: 8,000 miles at 12 knots
• Complement: 24 officers, 2 warrants, 226 enlisted
• Geared turbine engines, twin screws, 6,200 hp.
• Built at New York Navy Yard and commissioned 1 March 1937
• Coast Guard Cutter Spencer was named for the sixteenth Secretary of the Treasury, John C. Spencer.
• The cost to build the Spencer was 2.5 million dollars.