USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154)
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United States | |
Name: | USCGC Vigilant |
Builder: | American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
Launched: | 25 April 1927 |
Commissioned: | 3 May 1927 |
Decommissioned: | 1966 |
Fate: | Sold in 1966 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Active-class patrol boat |
Displacement: | 232 tons |
Length: | 125 feet |
Beam: | 23.5 feet |
Draft: | 7.5 feet |
Propulsion: | 2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp engines |
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Complement: | 3 officers, 17 men (1960) |
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USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154) was an Active-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard. She was 125-foot, steel-hulled, twin-screw, diesel-powered cutter primarily outfitted for Aids to Navigation work. She was involved in the rescue of survivors of several U-boat attacks off central Florida in the 1940s.
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