USCGC Barbara Mabrity
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Name | Barbara Mabrity |
Operator | US Coast Guard |
Builder | Marinette Marine Corporation |
Launched | 26 March 1999 |
Commissioned | 20 November 1999 |
Homeport | Mobile, Alabama |
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Status | Active |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Keeper-class buoy tender |
Displacement | 850 long tons (864 t) full load |
Length | 175 ft (53.3 m) |
Beam | 36 ft (11.0 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Installed power | 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) sustained |
Propulsion | 2 × Caterpillar 3508 DITA Diesel engines; bow thruster, 500 hp (373 kW) |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | 2000 nautical miles at 10 kn |
Crew | 24 (2 Officers, 22 Enlisted) |
USCGC Barbara Mabrity (WLM-559) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. Launched in 1999, she is home-ported in Mobile, Alabama. Her primary mission is maintaining aids to navigation from western Florida to the Mississippi River. Secondary missions include marine environmental protection, search and rescue, and security. She is assigned to the Eighth Coast Guard District.[1]