USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725)
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 USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) |
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| Career |  |
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| Namesake: | Captain David H. Jarvis, US Revenue Cutter Service |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Laid down: | 9 September 1970 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 4 August 1972 |
| Recommissioned: | December 1992 |
| Decommissioned: | July 1990 |
| Homeport: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Motto: | Dedicare ad excellentia (Dedicated to Excellence) |
| Fate: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,250 tons |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | CODOG: 2 × FM diesel engines 2 × PW gas turbines |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | 16,000 miles |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Complement: | 178 personnel (21 officers and 157 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-40 air-search radar |
| Armament: | Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS |
USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) is a United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class high endurance cutter based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. Launched April 24, 1971 at Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana. She was commissioned August 4, 1972 in Honolulu. She received $55 million FRAM upgrade at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington between July 1990 and December 1992.[1]
The ship was named for David H. Jarvis, a hero of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. During the harsh winter of 1897-1898, Lieutenant Jarvis of the US Revenue Cutter Bear led the Overland Relief Expedition to bring needed food to 265 whalers whose ships had been stranded in the ice off the northern coast of Alaska.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "USCGC Jarvis History". U.S. Coast Guard, 14 September 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2010
- ^ Irving H. King, The Coast Guard expands, 1865-1915 (1996) pp 94-107
[edit] External links
Media related to USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) at Wikimedia Commons
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