USCGC ''William Trump'' (WPC-1111) is a
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of the
United States Coast Guard
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When she was delivered to the Coast Guard, on November 25, 2014, she was the eleventh vessel of her class, and the fifth vessel based in the Coast Guard's station in ]Key West, Florida
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.sister ship
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s she has the endurance to take her crew on five day missions of up to .
She has modern electronics, integrating her with the rest of the Coast Guard and is designed for search and rescue, apprehending smuggling vessels, intercepting international refugees, and other constabulary duties. She carries a high-speed jet-boat, that is deployed and retrieved via her stern launching ramp
Some modern patrol vessels are equipped with a stern launching ramp, or simply launching ramp, for deploying smaller rescue or pursuit boats without requiring the parent ship to first come to a halt.
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. She is armed by a remotely controlled 25 mm autocannon, and four crew served Browning fifty caliber machine guns. Her two diesel engine
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s can propel her at .
Operational history
On December 24, 2015, ''William Trump'', with other Coast Guard elements, pursued an expensive pleasure-craft stolen from Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the List o ...
.[ ''William Trump'' chase of the vessel spanned 20 hours, and over , before the three-man crew gave up and surrendered. The stolen craft was a ''"]go-fast
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"'', worth approximately $350,000, was powered by three outboard motors, and was capable of traveling at .[
The three suspects, David Llanes Vasquez, Farfan Ramirez-Vidal and Sauri Raul De La Vega, were turned over to the Lee County Sheriff Department, after the stolen vessel had been towed home.
Initially the Sheriff's department had tried to apprehend the gö-fast, which responded by ramming the law enforcement vessel.][ The Sheriff's department handed the chase over to the Coast Guard when the vessel left their jurisdiction.
On May 5, 2016, the ''William Trump'' was mobilized when a report was received that a fishing vessel was firing upon a pleasure-craft 20 miles from one of the ]Florida Keys
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.[ Both vessel were boarded and brought back to port, for an investigation.
In November, 2018, the ''William Trump'', and her sister ship, the ''Charles Sexton'', interdicted 36 Cuban migrants from illegally entering the US, and repatriated 35 of them to ]Cabañas, Cuba
Cabañas is a village and ''consejo popular'' of the municipality of Mariel, in the Artemisa Province, on the northeast coast in western Cuba.
History
Prior to 1970 was a municipality of Pinar del Río Province. Cabañas bay is a harbor with in ...
.[ One migrant seemed to suffer a heart attack and was sent to a US port for medical treatment.
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Namesake
Like all the vessels in her class ''William Trump'' is named after an individual from the Coast Guard's past who has been recognized as a hero.[
Her namesake, ]William Trump
William Francis Trump (November 7, 1923 – July 24, 2009) served aboard a Landing Craft Infantry vessel during four amphibious assaults, during World War II.
His vessel, the USS LCI-90, USS ''LCI-90'', participated in the invasion of ...
, distinguished himself for his heroism helping soldiers land on Omaha Beach
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, during the Invasion of Normandy
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, actions that won him a Silver Star
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.
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2014 ships
Sentinel-class cutters
Ships built in Lockport, Louisiana