USCGC Gallatin (WHEC-721)
- USCGC Gallatin (WHEC-721)
USCGC "Gallatin" (WHEC-721) is a U.S. Coast Guard "Hamilton"-class high endurance cutter based out of Charleston, South Carolina. Built at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana, "Gallatin" was named for Albert Gallatin, the fourth and longest serving United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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* [http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/cutter/gallatin/index.htm "Gallatin" home page]
* [http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/cutter/gallatin/about.htm U.S. Coast Guard: History of the "Gallatin"]
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