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  2. Fleet Obsolete - Wikipedia

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    Patrol torpedo boat PT-48 the last of the 77-foot Elco Naval Division, completed 15 September 1941; Patrol torpedo boat PT-459, 78-foot Higgins Industries, New Orleans, completed 23 March 1944. Past names: Mahogany Menace and Beachcomber IV. [5] Patrol torpedo boat PT-486, 80-foot Elco Naval Division, completed 25 November 1943, past name US ...

  3. Point-class cutter - Wikipedia

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    With the goal of reducing manning requirements, the Point-class patrol boat was designed to accommodate an eight-man crew, a reduction from the 15-man crews of the Cape-class cutter. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Production started in early 1960 at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland and continued through late December 1963, producing 44 boats.

  4. Wooden boats of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Wooden-hulled 83-foot patrol boats were used in the United States Coast Guard as patrol boats, also called cutters. Used as patrol craft and rescue craft. The US Coast Guard was active in support of amphibious activity in other the Normandy landings and Pacific War amphibious landing. Landing small woodcraft in the surf was a skill the Coast ...

  5. Ocean City Life-Saving Station (New Jersey) - Wikipedia

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    The Ocean City Life-Saving Station (also known as U.S. Life Saving Station 30 and U.S. Coast Guard Station No. 126) is the only life-saving station of its design in New Jersey still in existence. Designed by architect James Lake Parkinson in a Carpenter Gothic style, the building is one of 25 stations built of the 1882 life-saving type.

  6. List of United States Coast Guard stations - Wikipedia

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    Coast Guard Station Ocean City: Ocean City: 1878 Active 30 126 [154] [155] Coast Guard Station Peck's Beach: 1870 1922 31 127 [156] [155] Coast Guard Station Sea Isle City: Sea Isle City: 1872 1939 33 129 [157] Coast Guard Station Seabright: Seabright: 1871 1938 3 99 [158] Coast Guard Station Shark River: Avon-by-the-Sea: 2021 7 103 [159] Coast ...

  7. List of United States Coast Guard cutters - Wikipedia

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    65 87' Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat (WPB) 66 83' patrol craft - 230 hulls, not named. 67 82' Point-class patrol boat (WPB) 68 80' inland buoy tender (WLI)

  8. Police watercraft - Wikipedia

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    Police boat of the NYPD Harbor Unit in 2006. Police watercraft are boats or other vessels that are used by police agencies to patrol bodies of water. They are usually employed on major rivers, [1] in enclosed harbors near cities or in places where a stronger presence than that offered by the harbormaster or coast guard is needed.

  9. USCGC Active (WPC-125) - Wikipedia

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    Active was built by American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation at Camden, New Jersey.She was commissioned as USCGC Active (WPC-125) on 30 November 1926. She was the lead ship of the Active-class patrol boats, which were designed for trailing the "mother ships" that supported the smuggling boats of "rum-runners" during Prohibition.