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- Code Number:
- MYCV01P11_15B
- Title:
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USCGC SHERMAN, WHEC-720, high endurance cutter, USCG
- Namesake: John Sherman
Builder: Avondale Shipyards Laid down: 25/01/1967 Launched: 23/09/1967 Commissioned: 3/09/1968 Recommissioned: July 1989 Decommissioned: May 1986 Homeport: San Diego, California Motto: "Honorable and Faithful" Honors and awards: Golden Eagle award by White House Drug Czar Displacement: 3,250 tons Length: 115 meters (378 feet) Beam: 13 meters (43 feet) Draft: 4.6 meters (15 feet) Propulsion: 2x diesel engines and 2x gas turbine engines Speed: 29 knots Range: 14,000 miles Endurance: 45 days Complement: 167 personnel Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-40 air-search radar Armament: Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS
In July 2001, Sherman became the first Coast Guard cutter to circumnavigate the world.
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San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Suspension Bridge, Landmark, Interstate Highway I-80, Transportation, Span, Coast Guard, Military, Maritime
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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