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Article: Coast Guard, Navy shape future cutter requirements. (US Coast Guard to replace high- and medium-endurance cutters of Famous, Hamilton and Reliance classes)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- August 27, 1996
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The Coast Guard is working with the Navy to craft requirements for new cutters capable of meeting service missions well into 21st century, according to a Coast Guard official.
The new ships would replace 41 high- and medium-endurance cutters of the Hamilton, Famous and Reliance classes. The three classes--the largest vessels in the Coast Guard inventory--entered service in the 1960s and 1970s and are slated for replacement starting around 2010 in what could be a multi-billion dollar program.
In peacetime, the ships are needed to enforce U.S. maritime, fisheries, immigration, environmental and drug laws, coordinate search and rescue operations and act as ...