USCGC Cushing (WPB-1321)

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Career (United States)

Name:	USCGC Cushing
Namesake:	Cushing Island, Maine
Status:	Active in service as of 2010
General characteristics
Class & type:	Island-class patrol boat
Displacement:	168 tons
Length:	110 feet
Beam:	21 feet
Propulsion:	2 diesel engines
Speed:	28 knots
Complement:	2 officers, 14 enlisted
Armament:	25 mm Mk 38 machine gun, 2 .50 cal M2 machine guns

USCGC Cushing (WPB-1321) is a 110-foot Island-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard. She was built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, in the Spring of 1988 and commissioned on Aug. 4, 1988, at Coast Guard Base Mobile, Alabama. She is currently homeported in San Juan, Puerto Rico.^[1]

References

v t e Island-class patrol boats

Farallon Manitou Matagorda Maui Monhegan Nunivak Ocracoke Vashon Aquidneck Mustang Naushon Sanibel Edisto Sapelo Matinicus Nantucket Attu Baranof Chandeleur Chincoteague Cushing Cuttyhunk Drummond Largo / Key Largo Metompkin Monomoy Orcas Padre Sitkinak Tybee Washington Wrangell Adak Liberty Anacapa Kiska Assateague Grand Isle Key Biscayne Jefferson Island Kodiak Island Long Island Bainbridge Island Block Island Staten Island Roanoke Island Pea Island Knight Island Galveston Island

List of United States Coast Guard cutters

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