USCGC Diligence (WMEC-616)
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Builder: | Todd Shipyards, Houston, Texas |
| Acquired: | 20 July 1963[1] |
| Commissioned: | 1964 |
| Homeport: | Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Status: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 759 tons |
| Length: | 210 ft 6 in (64.16 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) max |
| Propulsion: | 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 |
USCGC Diligence (WMEC-616) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter.
Diligence moors up in downtown Wilmington and is the 6th US Coast Guard Cutter to bear that name and be homeported in Wilmington, North Carolina, one of only fourteen cities in the country with the designation of "A Coast Guard City".[2] Diligence is capable of performing any of the missions that white-hulled Coast Guard Cutters traditionally perform; ranging from alien migrant interdiction operations (AMIO) and drug interdiction missions down in the Caribbean, or fisheries protection of the Atlantic seaboard, or search and rescue anywhere in between. Diligence has a history of being crewed by some of the best officers in the Coast Guard.[citation needed]
Seen in the 1966 movie "Around the World Under the Sea" with Lloyd Bridges
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