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USCGC Legare (WMEC-912) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. Legare was laid down July 11, 1986 at Robert Derecktor Shipyard Incorporated of Middletown, Rhode Island . She was named for Hugh Swinton Legare , a former United States Attorney General under President John Tyler .
After the rescue operation had concluded and Andrea Doria had sunk, Legare, along with other Coast Guard cutters, used gunfire to sink Andrea Doria′s abandoned lifeboats, which maritime authorities had deemed a hazard to navigation. [5] Legare was redesignated as a medium endurance cutter and given the new hull classification symbol WMEC-144 ...
USCGC Legare has been the name of more than one United States Coast Guard ship, and may refer to: . USCGC Legare (WSC-144), later WMEC-144, a patrol boat, later medium endurance cutter, in commission from 1927 to 1968
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare stopped the boat around 8:30 Monday night, the Coast Guard said. The cutter is based in Portsmouth, Virginia, and on patrol off South Florida as part of a ...
The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a migrant boat carrying nearly 400 people from Haiti near an isolated island in the Bahamas, according to Bahamian officials. ... #Breaking @USCG Cutter Legare's crew ...
The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Legare offloaded 24,700 pounds of cocaine and 3,892 pounds of marijuana at Base Miami Beach Thursday, according to a U.S. Coast Guard press release.
The List of United States Coast Guard Cutters is a listing of all cutters to have been commissioned by the United States Coast Guard during the history of that service. It is sorted by length down to 65', the minimum length of a USCG cutter.
The Medium Endurance Cutter or WMEC is a type of United States Coast Guard Cutter mainly consisting of the 270-foot (82 m) Famous- and 210-foot (64 m) Reliance-class cutters. These larger cutters are under control of Area Commands (Atlantic Area or Pacific Area). [ 1 ]