USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)
 USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615) | |
| Career (USCG) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Todd Shipyards, Houston, Texas |
| Commissioned: | 1964 |
| Homeport: | Kittery, Maine |
| Motto: | First in the Fleet |
| Fate: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 759 tons |
| Length: | 210 ft 6 in (64.16 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) max |
| Propulsion: | Originally, 2 x Cooper-Bessemer Corporation FVBM-12 turbocharged diesel engines; Currently, 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 auto cannon 2 x M2HB .50 caliber machine gun |
| Aircraft carried: | HH-65 Dolphin |
USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She is the first of the 210' Medium Endurance Cutter Fleet and the fourth Revenue Cutter / Coast Guard Cutter to bear the name Reliance. Constructed by Todd Shipyards in Houston, Texas and commissioned in 1964, she was originally homeported in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her duties included offshore oil rig inspections, fisheries, counter drug, alien migrant interdiction and marine pollution patrols and of course, Search and Rescue. Reliance has been homeported in Yorktown, Virginia, Port Canaveral, Florida and New Castle, New Hampshire. She is currently stationed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.[1]
References
- ↑ "USCGC Reliance (WMEC 615): Ship's History". U.S. Coast Guard. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
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