USCGC ''Reliance'' (WMEC-615) is a
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, mu ...
medium endurance cutter. She is the first of the 210' Medium Endurance Cutter Fleet and the fourth Revenue Cutter / Coast Guard Cutter to bear the name ''Reliance''. 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
Yorktown is a census-designated place (CDP) in York County, Virginia. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 195 as of the 2010 census, while York Co ...
,
Port Canaveral, Florida,
New Castle, New Hampshire
New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,000 at the 2020 census. It is the smallest and easternmost town in New Hampshire, and the only one located entirely on islands. It is home to Fort Const ...
and
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of May 2019 she is stationed at the
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United State ...
in Pensacola, Florida.
References
External links
''Reliance'' home page*
Historic American Engineering Record in Maine
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
Reliance-class cutters
Ships built in Houston
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