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USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter commissioned in 1967 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana.She was the sixth ship or boat to bear the name of Alexander J. Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison (1814–1816).
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.
USCGC Dallas (1925), a patrol boat in commission in the Coast Guard from 1925 to 1936 USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) , a high endurance cutter commissioned in 1967 and decommissioned in 2012. The vessel was then transferred to the Philippine Navy and renamed BRP Ramon Alcaraz (FF-16).
BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16) is the second ship of the Gregorio del Pilar-class patrol ships of the Philippine Navy.From 1968 to 2012, she was known as USCGC Dallas and served the United States Coast Guard as a high endurance cutter.
The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters.The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."
Over 19 tons of narcotics were seized in 18 events by 10 US Coast Guard cutters in partnership with the Colombian Navy and Costa Rica, Captain Jeffrey Randall said in a press briefing aboard the ...
The designation of high endurance cutter (WHEC) was created in 1965 when the United States Coast Guard adopted its own designation system. High endurance cutters encompass the largest cutters previously designated by the United States Navy as gunboats, destroyer escorts, and seaplane tenders. [ 1 ]
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