USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)

Career (USCG)
USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)
Builder:	Todd Shipyards, Houston, Texas
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:	1964
Status:	Active
Homeport:	Portsmouth, New Hampshire
General Characteristics
Displacement:	759 tons
Length:	210' 6"
Beam:	34'
Draught:	10' 6" max
Propulsion:	Originally, 2 x Cooper-Bessemer Corporation FVBM-12 turbocharged diesel engines; Currently, 2 x V16 2550 horsepower ALCO diesel engines
Speed:	max 18 knots; 2,700 mile range
Range:	cruise 14 knots; 6,100 mile range
Complement:	12 officers, 63 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	2 x AN/SPS-64
Armament:	1 x Mk 38 25mm machine gun 2 x M2HB .50 caliber machine gun
Aircraft carried:	HH-65 Dolphin
Motto:	First in the Fleet

USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She is the first of the 210' Medium Endurance Cutter Fleet. Constructed by Todd Shipyards in Houston, Texas and commissioned in 1964, she was originally homeported in Galveston, Texas. Her duties included offshore oil rig inspections, fisheries and marine pollution patrols and of course, Search and Rescue. Reliance has been homeported in Yorktown, Virginia, Port Canaveral, Florida and New Castle, New Hampshire. She is currently stationed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.[1]