USCGC Assateague (WPB-1337)
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| Career (USCG) |  |
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| Name: | USCGC Assateague (WPB-1337) |
| Namesake: | Assateague Island, Maryland & Virginia |
| Builder: |
Bolinger Shipyard Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched: | 10 November 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 15 June 1990 |
| Homeport: | Apra Harbor, Guam |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Island class patrol cutter (WPB) |
| Displacement: | 168 tons |
| Length: | 110 ft (34 m) |
| Beam: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range: | 2,000 miles |
| Complement: | 18 personnel |
| Aircraft carried: | None |
USCGC Assateague (WPB-1337) is an Island-class United States Coast Guard Cutter of the United States Coast Guard. Assateague was constructed at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard in Lockport, Louisiana, and commissioned on 15 June 1990.
Currently operating in the Coast Guard 14th District, the cutter reports to Sector Guam. Assateague supports multi-mission operations throughout Sector Guam’s vast area of responsibility, which includes the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zones surrounding Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and an international SAR area that includes the Republic of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia, conducting search and rescue response missions, and ports, waterways and coastal security operations.[1]
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