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When applied to boats or ships, the name cutter is defined in three different ways.
- is concerned with the sailing rig
- is concerned with the work for which the boat is useful and the way its oars are arranged
- has to do with the organization owning the boat or ship.
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Datasheet: 210-Foot Reliance-class Medium Endurance Cutter - Displaces a 1,000 tons and is powered by two diesel engines.
Meta Description: [ Specification sheet ]
Datasheet: 270-Foot Bear-class Medium Endurance Cutter - Also known as the Famous Class.
Meta Description: [ Specification sheet ]
USCGC Alert (WMEC 630) - Astoria, Oregon.
USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC 39) - Originally commissioned in 1971 as the USS Edenton (ATS-1), now a 282-foot medium endurance cutter.
Meta Description: [ USCGC Alex Haley Web- Home ]
USCGC Bear (WMEC 901) - The first of thirteen Famous Class 270-foot medium endurance cutters. Portsmouth, Virginia.
Meta Description: [ This is a site about the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC-901) homeported in Portsmouth, VA. This site will give you some general information about the cutter, and some basic Coast GUard knowledge. ]
USCGC Campbell (WMEC 909) - New Bedford, Massachusetts.
USCGC Dauntless (WMEC 624) - Homeport of Galveston, Texas.
Meta Description: [ USCGC DAUNTLESS ]
USCGC Diligence (WMEC 616) - Wilmington, North Carolina.
Meta Description: [ home page ]
USCGC Escanaba (WMEC-907) - Number seven of the thirteen 270' cutters. Boston, Massachusetts.
Meta Description: [ USCGC ESCANABA ]
USCGC Legare (WMEC 912) - Coast Guard Support Center, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Meta Description: [ index ]
USCGC Northland (WMEC 904) - Stationed out of U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Support Command Portsmouth, Virginia.
Meta Description: [ index page ]
USCGC Tahoma (WMEC 908) - Homeport in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC 166) - The cutter that braved The Perfect Storm in October 1991 to rescue the crews of the S/V Satori and a ditched Air National Guard helicopter.
Meta Description: [ U.S. Coast Guard History. ]
USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC 166) - Unofficial home of the decomissioned cutter.
Meta Description: [ Tamaroa Maritime Foundation: Online Home of the decomissioned USCG Cutter Tamaroa (WMEC-166) ]
USCGC Tampa (WMEC 902) - Portsmouth, Virginia.
USCGC Vigorous (WMEC 627) - Cape May, New Jersey.
| USCG VIGILANT and UNIMACK 1987. | |
