USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)

USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)
History
United States
Builder	Todd Shipyards, Houston, Texas
Commissioned	1964
Homeport	Pensacola, Florida
Identification	MMSI number: 367297000 Callsign: NJPJ
Motto	First in the Fleet
Fate	Active
General characteristics
Displacement	1108.9 tons
Length	210 ft 6 in (64.16 m)
Beam	34 ft (10 m)
Draught	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) max
Propulsion	Originally, 2 x Cooper-Bessemer Corporation FVBM-12 turbocharged diesel engines; Currently, 2 x V16 2550 horsepower ALCO diesel engines
Speed	max 18 knots; 2,700 mile range
Range	cruise 14 knots; 6,100 mile range
Complement	12 officers, 63 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	2 x AN/SPS-64
Armament	1 × Mk 38 25mm auto cannon 2 × M2HB .50 caliber machine gun
Aircraft carried	HH-65 Dolphin

USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615) is a United States Coast Guard 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, Port Canaveral, Florida and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of May 2014 she is stationed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Pensacola Florida.

External links

• Reliance home page
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. ME-107, "U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, York County, ME", 33 photos, 14 color transparencies, 9 data pages, 4 photo caption pages