 USCG photo of USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715) The High Endurance Cutter is the largest class of vessel in the United States Coast Guard, aside from the Polar Ice Breakers. The pennant number is prefixed WHEC. They are powered by diesel engines and gas turbines, and have controllable-pitch propellers. Equipped with a helicopter flight deck, retractable hangar, and the facilities to support helicopter deployment, these 12 cutters were introduced to the Coast Guard inventory in the 1960s. Beginning in the 1980s and ending in 1992, the entire class was modernized through the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) program. The first of the class was the Hamilton (WHEC-715), commissioned in 1967. The primary mission of these vessels is enforcement of laws and treaties and search and rescue (SAR) on the high seas, including the U.S. exclusive economic zone. USCG photo of USCGC Hamilton, WHEC-715 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
USCG photo of USCGC Hamilton, WHEC-715 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Coast Guard shield The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the coast guard of the United States. ...
USCG photo of USCG Polar Star Icebreaker (WAGB 10) The USCG Polar class of heavy icebreakers consists of three vessels, the USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), the USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11), and the USCGC Healy (WAGB-20). ...
HMS Leeds Castle, launched in 1943 as a corvette with pennant number K384, was redesignated a frigate in 1948 and given the new flag superior F as seen here. ...
The diesel engine is a type of internal combustion engine; more specifically, it is a compression ignition engine, in which the fuel is ignited by being suddenly exposed to the high temperature and pressure of a compressed gas containing oxygen (usually atmospheric air), rather than a separate source of ignition...
This machine has a single-stage radial compressor and turbine, a recuperator, and foil bearings. ...
This is a special type of propeller commonly used in larger vessels. ...
A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...
This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ...
// Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) program of the United States Navy might be considered the beginning of the final phase in the shift of mission for destroyers from a surface attack role to that of a submarine hunter. ...
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Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands. ...
In international maritime law, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a seazone extending from a states coast over which the state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. ...
Specifications
- Number in service Coast Guard-wide: 12
- Length: 378 feet (115 meters)
- Beam: 43 feet
- Displacement: 3,250 tons
- Power Plant: Two diesel engines/two gas turbine engines
- Commissioned: 1967–1972
Secretary Class High Endurance Cutters by homeport
- USCGC Boutwell (WHEC-719)
- USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722)
- USCGC Munro (WHEC-724)
- USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720)
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USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) is a High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), currently the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. ...
- USCGC Chase (WHEC-718)
- USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715)
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Honolulu, Hawaii - USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725)
- USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
Location in the state of Hawaii Founded County City & County of Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann Area - Total - Water Population - City (2000) - Density - Metropolitan 371,657 1,674. ...
- USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716)
- USCGC Gallatin (WHEC-721)
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- USCGC Mellon (WHEC-717)
- USCGC Midgett (WHEC-726)
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