USCGC Point Welcome
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USCGC Point Welcome (WPB-82329) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point-class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat.
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Name | USCGC Point Welcome (WPB-82329) |
Namesake | Point Welcome, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, U.S. |
Owner | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland, U.S. |
Commissioned | 14 February 1962 |
Decommissioned | 29 April 1970 |
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Type | Patrol Boat (WPB) |
Displacement | 60 tons |
Length | 82 ft 10 in (25.25 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 7 in (5.36 m) max |
Draft | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 600 hp (447 kW) Cummins diesel engines |
Speed | 16.8 knots (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph) |
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Coast Guard policy in 1962 was not to name cutters under 100 feet (30 m) in length, so she was designated as WPB-82329 when commissioned and renamed Point Welcome in January 1964 when the Coast Guard began naming cutters longer than 65 feet (20 m).[5][6] She was notable for being the victim of a friendly fire incident during the Vietnam War.