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USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)
History
United States
Builder	Todd Shipyards, Houston, Texas
Commissioned	1964
Homeport	Pensacola, Florida
Identification	MMSI number: 367297000 Callsign: NJPJ
Motto	First in the Fleet
Status	In active service
General characteristics
Displacement	1108.9 tons
Length	210 ft 6 in (64.16 m)
Beam	34 ft (10 m)
Draught	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) max
Propulsion	Originally, 2 x Cooper-Bessemer Corporation FVBM-12 turbocharged diesel engines plus two Solar Saturn 1000 HP gas turbines (CODAG) on the first five ships of the class (615 thru 619 hull numbers); Currently, 2 x V16 2550 horsepower ALCO diesel engines
Speed	max 18 knots; 2,700 mile range
Range	cruise 14 knots; 6,100 mile range
Complement	12 officers, 63 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	2 x AN/SPS-64
Armament	1 × Mk 38 25mm auto cannon 2 × M2HB .50 caliber machine gun
Aircraft carried	HH-65 Dolphin

USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She is the fourth Revenue Cutter / Coast Guard Cutter to bear the name Reliance and the first of the 210' Medium Endurance Cutter Fleet. 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, marine pollution patrols, and search and rescue. Reliance has been homeported in Yorktown, Virginia, Port Canaveral, Florida, New Castle, New Hampshire and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of May 2019, she is stationed at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.

References

1. "History of USCGC RELIANCE". United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Defense Media Activity. Retrieved 11 November 2022.

External links

• Reliance home page
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. ME-107, "U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, York County, ME", 33 photos, 14 color transparencies, 9 data pages, 4 photo caption pages

v t e Reliance-class cutters
United States Coast Guard	Reliance Diligence Vigilant Active Confidence Resolute Valiant Courageous Steadfast Dauntless Venturous Dependable Vigorous Durable Decisive Alert
Colombian National Navy	Valle del Cauca (ex-Durable)
Sri Lanka Navy	Samudura (ex-Courageous)
Preceded by: Red class Followed by: Heritage class
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