USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)

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USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
Career
Builder: Avondale Shipyards
Laid down:
Launched: November 16, 1968
Status: Active
Homeport: Honolulu, Hawaii
General Characteristics
Displacement: 3,250 tons
Length: 378 feet
Beam: 43 feet
Draught: 15 feet
Propulsion: Two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines
Speed: 29 knots
Range: 14,000 miles
Endurance: 45 days
Complement: 167 personnel
Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-40 air-search radar
Armament: Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS

USCGC Rush (WHEC-723) is a U. S. Coast Guard high endurance cutter based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. Constructed at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana and launched November 16, 1968, she is the fifth Coast Guard Cutter to be named after the eighth Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush.

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Hamilton-class Coast Guard Cutters
Hamilton | Dallas | Mellon | Chase | Boutwell | Sherman | Gallatin | Morgenthau | Rush | Munro | Jarvis | Midgett

United States Coast Guard