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USCGC Vigorous
USCGC ''Vigorous'' (WMEC-627) is a United States Coast Guard Reliance Class medium endurance cutter. Service summary Her keel was laid down by American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio 10 November 1967 and she was launched 4 May 1968. ''Vigorous'' was commissioned 2 May 1969 and her current homeport is Virginia Beach, VA. Her initial homeport was in New London, Connecticut where she was moored at the United States Coast Guard Academy. She was decommissioned for modernization at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ..., in early 1992 and was recommissioned on 11 January 1993. During the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, 2010 Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, the ''Vigorous'' maintained a sec ...
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USCGC Vigorous WMEC-627
United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard for its ship commissioning, commissioned vessels. They are or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. They carry the ship prefix USCGC. History of the USCG cutters The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as Cutter (boat), cutters. The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one Mast (sailing), mast and bowsprit, with a Gaff rig, gaff mainsail on a Boom (sailing), boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."Peter Kemp, ed. (1976). ''The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea''. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 221–222. With general usage, that term came to define any vessel of the United Kingdom's HM Customs and Excise and the term was a ...
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