SLNS Vijayabahu (P627)
SLNS ''Vijayabahu'' (P627) () is an Offshore Patrol Vessel, Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy. The ship is named after Vijayabahu I of Polonnaruwa, King Vijayabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lanka who founded the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa. Formerly, USCGC ''Douglas Munro'' (WHEC-724) and USCGC '' Munro'' (WHEC-724), a USCG high endurance cutter, High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munro, Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), the only coast guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. ''Munro'' was Ship commissioning, commissioned on September 27, 1971, at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tenth of twelve cutters, she was the first to be named after a Coast Guard hero. The previously commissioned 378-footers had been named for former United States Secretary of the Treasury, secretaries of the treasury, a tradition that began in 1830 when a cutter was named for Alexander Hami ...
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Douglas Albert Munro
Douglas Albert Munro (October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) was a United States Coast Guard, United States coast guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. He is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard. Munro was born in Canada to an American father and a British mother, and his family moved to the United States when he was a child. He was raised in South Cle Elum, Washington, and attended Central Washington University, Central Washington College of Education before volunteering for military service shortly before the United States entered World War II. Munro and his shipmate Raymond Evans (USCG), Raymond Evans were known as the Gold Dust Twins, so-called because they were inseparable. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, Munro was assigned to Naval Operating Base Cactus at Lunga Point, where small boat operations were coordinated. At the Se ...
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