USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)

USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)

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. [http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/cutter/reliance/History.htm]

External links

* [http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/cutter/reliance/index.html "Reliance" home page]


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