Name Monomoy Motto Anywhere Anytime Range 5.310835 million m | Commissioned May 19, 1989 Length 34 m Builder Lockport | |
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Namesake Monomoy Island, off the west coast of Cape Cod in Nantucket Shoals Operator United States Coast Guard Homeport Coast Guard Station Woods Hole, Woods Hole, Massachusetts | ||
USCGC Monomoy (WPB-1326) is a United States Coast Guard Island class patrol cutter. She is the 26th ship of her class. The second ship of the Coast Guard to bear the name, Monomoy is named after Monomoy Island which lies off the coast of Cape Cod.
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History
Monomoy was originally commissioned in 1989 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, at Coast Guard Station Woods Hole. Her missions have included search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, alien interdiction, marine mammal protection and pollution response, homeland security, and presidential security. Monomoy provided security for President Clinton while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, and for George W. Bush while he was in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Between 1994 and 1996, she conducted 25 law enforcement patrols in support of Operation Foxwood. Since 1996, Monomoy has conducted over 300 law enforcement boardings, including the interception and seizure in 1998 of 920 pounds of cocaine off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Search and rescue is a Monomoy core competency. For rescuing the crew of the fishing vessel True Life, the crew of Monomoy was awarded a Coast Guard Unit Commendation. Another was awarded for the ship's assistance in wreckage recovery after the TWA Flight 800 disaster in 1996. Between 1994 and 1996, Monomoy participated in Operation Able Manner, which resulted in the rescue of 71 migrants in the Caribbean whose vessels were foundering, and for which the ship was awarded a Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation.
After the September 11 attacks, Monomoy was one of the ships to patrol New York Harbor in District One.
Recent service
In 2003, Monomoy was forward deployed to Manama, Bahrain as part of Patrol Forces Southwest Asia in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Serving under the United States Fifth Fleet, she participated in anti-piracy patrols, among other missions. In 2012, while on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Monomoy aided in the rescue of six Iranian sailors from their sinking dhow.
On 26 August 2014 Monomoy was involved in an incident with an armed Iranian dhow in the Persian Gulf. Monomoy launched the cutter small boat to query the dhow. The crew of the dhow pointed a machine gun at the small boat and Monomoy's crew responded with a warning shot. The dhow did not respond. No U.S. personnel were harmed and they returned to the cutter. It is not known if the dhow was hit.