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USCGC Cape Horn
History
USCGC Cape HornUnited States
NameUSCGC Cape Horn
OwnerU.S. Coast Guard
BuilderUnited States Coast Guard Yard, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Commissioned3 September 1958–Spring 1982 (major overhaul)[1]
Recommissioned21 January 1983
DecommissionedJanuary 1990
Identification
  • MMSI number: 770576020 (as Rio Negro)
  • Callsign: CWBJ (as Rio Negro)
FateTransferred to Uruguay, January 1990
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeType "C" Cape-class cutter
TypePatrol boat
Displacement98 tons
Length95 ft (29 m)
Beam20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Propulsion
  • 4 × Cummins VT-600 diesels (1958–1982)[2]
  • 2 Detroit 16V149 diesels (1982–1989)
Speed26 kn (48 km/h)
Range3,560 nmi (6,590 km)
Complement15 (1961)
Sensors and
processing systems
Radar: AN/SPS-64 (1987)
Armament
  • 2 × M2 Browning machine guns (as completed)
  • 2 × M60 machine guns
  • 2 × 40mm Mk 64 grenade launchers (1987)

USCGC Cape Horn was a 95-foot (29 m) type "C" Cape-class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland, in 1958 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat.[3]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference USCG01 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Scheina80 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Scheina, p 79

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