Commissioned 1964 Motto First in the Fleet Beam 34 ft (10 m) Weight 771.2 tons Builder Vigor Shipyards | Homeport Kittery, Maine Fate Active Length 64 m Displacement 688,600 kg | |
 | ||
Draught 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) max | ||
Uscgc reliance wmec 615 by tom hough spar wlb 403 1966
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.
References
USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA