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, marine pollution patrols, and search and rescue. Reliance has been homeported in Yorktown, Virginia, Port Canaveral, Florida, New Castle, New Hampshire and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of May 2019, she is stationed at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.[1]
 USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Builder | Todd Shipyards, Houston, Texas |
| Commissioned | 1964 |
| Homeport | Pensacola, Florida |
| Identification |
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| Motto | First in the Fleet |
| Status | In active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1108.9 tons |
| Length | 210 ft 6 in (64.16 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) max |
| Propulsion |
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| 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 | |
| Aircraft carried | HH-65 Dolphin |
References edit
- ^ "History of USCGC RELIANCE". United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Defense Media Activity. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
External links edit
- Reliance home page
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. ME-107, "U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, York County, ME", 33 photos, 14 color transparencies, 9 data pages, 4 photo caption pages
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