USCGC Anacapa (WPB-1335)
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Anacapa in Glacier Bay, Alaska | |
Career (United States) | |
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Name: | USCGC Anacapa |
Namesake: | Anacapa Island, California |
Homeport: | Petersburg, Alaska |
Status: | Active in service |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Island-class cutter |
Displacement: | 164 tons |
Length: | 110 ft (34 m) |
Beam: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Draft: | 6.5 ft (2.0 m) |
Propulsion: | Twin Paxman Valenta 16-CM RP-200M |
Speed: | 30+ knots |
Range: | 9,900 miles |
Endurance: | 6 days |
Boats & landing craft carried: | 1 - RHI (90 HP outboard engine) |
Complement: | 22 personnel (3 officers, 19 enlisted) |
Armament: |
25 mm Mk 38 chain gun 5 x .50 caliber machine guns 1 x MK 19 40 mm Grenade Launcher Various Small Arms |
Notes: | Communications: VHF and HF |
USCGC Anacapa (WPB-1335) is an Island-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. Her class of ships were built in the 1980s and early 1990s to replace Cape-class cutters. The ship is named for Anacapa Island.
Anacapa's homeport in 2012 was Petersburg, Alaska.[1] She sank the Ryou-Un Maru in the Gulf of Alaska on April 6, 2012.[2]
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