United States Coast Guard Yard, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Commissioned
3 September 1958–Spring 1982 (major overhaul)[1]
Recommissioned
21 January 1983
Decommissioned
January 1990
Identification
MMSI number: 770576020 (as Rio Negro)
Callsign: CWBJ (as Rio Negro)
Fate
Transferred to Uruguay, January 1990
General characteristics [1]
Class and type
Type "C" Cape-class cutter
Displacement
98 tons
Length
95 ft (29 m)
Beam
20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Propulsion
4 × Cummins VT-600 diesel engines (1958–1982)[2]
2 Detroit 16V149 diesel engines (1982–1989)
Speed
26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range
3,560 nmi (6,590 km; 4,100 mi)
Complement
15 (1961)
Sensors and processing systems
Radar: AN/SPS-64 (1987)
Armament
2 × M2 Browning machine guns (as completed)
2 × M60 machine guns
2 × 40 mm 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]
^ abCite error: The named reference USCG01 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference Scheina80 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
USCGCCapeHorn 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...
USCGCCape Cross 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...
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) is a United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker. Commissioned in 1976, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction...
USS Dewey (DDG-105) USS Manchester (LCS-14) USCGC Forrest Rednour (WPC-1129) HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331) MV CapeHorn MV John D. Dillard Ships included: USS Somerset (LPD-25)...
tour of the Royal Navy vessel at the time. Cape Class Patrol Boats USCGCCape Knox (CG95312) and USCGCCapeHorn (CG95322) US Coast Guard This identical...
Coast Guardsman best known for his part in the rescue of the crew of the CapeHorn in 1919. Originally from Corpus Christi, Texas, Valent joined the United...
arrived at her homeport of Neah Bay, Washington by way of passage around CapeHorn in 1909. Snohomish was a regular part of the Bering Sea Patrol and enforced...
Paulding was sent to find the Coast Guard cutter USCGC CG-238 during a gale in February 1927 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The 75 ft (23 m) vessel had already...
significant media coverage since 2007. The United States Coast Guard cutter USCGC Munro, working with the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and destroyer...
in Rio de Janeiro, headed south to the South Atlantic, turned around CapeHorn to reach the Pacific Ocean (although some ships chose to cross through...
out from England in December 1849, sailed the Atlantic Ocean south to CapeHorn and entered the Pacific Ocean. He sailed the Pacific north and passed...
performed maritime security operations with HNLMS Amsterdam and USCGC Wrangell off the Horn of Africa and in the Arabian Sea. Typhoon used her smaller size...
Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1941 and served until 1946 on USCGC Haida After his wartime service at sea as a quartermaster, he attended the...
USCGC Point Hannon (WPB-82355) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed in 1967 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol...
coal for steamships to refuel. Also, both routes to Europe went round CapeHorn. The end of the First World War saw a brief return to profitability as...
HMAS Brisbane HMHS Britannic Bud Bar Bungsberg Byron C HMAS Canberra HMCS Cape Breton USCGCCape Henlopen Captain Keith Tibbetts Carl D. Bradley USS Carlisle Carnatic...
Survivors Association Winds Code Total includes USCGC Taney (WHEC-37), USCGC Reliance (WSC-150), and USCGC Tiger (WSC-152). Unless otherwise stated, all...
Global Information
United States