Name USCGC Halibut Status in active service Length 26 m | Commissioned April 26, 2002 Displacement 91 lt Endurance 5 days 0 hours | |
Homeport Marina del Rey, California Class and type Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat Builder Bollinger Shipyards, L.L.C. | ||
The USCGC Halibut is a Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat, based in Marina del Rey, California. Her patrol area is the 300 miles (480 km) from Morro Bay to Dana Point, and several important offshore islands.
Like her sister ships, the Halibut was built at the Bollinger Shipyards, in Lockport, Louisiana. Commissioned on April 26, 2002, she replaced the Point-class cutter USCGC Point Bridge.
In the early morning of December 2, 2012, the Halibut encountered a suspicious vessel, and dispatched her pursuit boat to investigate. The crew of the pursuit boat hailed the vessel and attempted to board her for an inspection, upon which the suspicious vessel rammed the Halibut's boat. Senior Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne, the Halibut's Executive Petty Officer, is credited with heroically pushing a colleague to safety at the cost of his own life.