USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720)

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USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) in 1969
Career
Builder: Avondale Shipyards
Laid down: January 25, 1967
Launched: September 3, 1968
Homeport: Alameda, California
Fate: Active in service as of 2007
General characteristics
Displacement: 3,250 tons
Length: 378 ft (115 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13 m)
Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)
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 Sherman (WHEC-720) is a U. S. Coast Guard high endurance cutter based out of Integrated Support Command Alameda, Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California.

Sherman was laid down January 25, 1967 at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana and launched September 3, 1968. She was named for John Sherman, the 32nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and author of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

On March 17, 2007 Sherman stopped the Panamanian motor vessel Gatun about 20 miles off a Panamanian island. Gatun was loaded with 20 tons of cocaine with an estimated retail street value of $600 million. The seizure was the largest drug bust in US history and the largest interdiction at sea.[1]

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