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USCGC James RankinUnited States
NameJames Rankin
OperatorUS Coast Guard
BuilderMarinette Marine Corporation
Launched25 April 1998
Commissioned1 May 1999
HomeportBaltimore, Maryland
Identification
  • IMO number: 9177234
  • Call sign: NUVD
  • MMSI number: 368777000
MottoKeeper of the Bay
StatusActive
Badge
General characteristics
TypeKeeper-class buoy tender
Displacement850 long tons (864 t) full load
Length175 ft (53.3 m)
Beam36 ft (11.0 m)
Draft8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power2,000 hp (1,500 kW) sustained
Propulsion2 × Caterpillar 3508 DITA Diesel engines; bow thruster, 500 hp (373 kW)
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range2000 nautical miles at 10 kn
Crew24 (2 Officers, 22 Enlisted)

USCGC James Rankin (WLM-555) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. Launched in 1998, she is home-ported at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland. Her primary mission is maintaining 361 aids to navigation in Upper Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries including the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Potomac River, and the Annapolis area.[1] Secondary missions include marine environmental protection, light icebreaking, search and rescue, and security. She is assigned to the Fifth Coast Guard District.[2]

  1. ^ "Coast Guard sets historic Francis Scott Key Memorial Buoy - Coast Guard News | Coast Guard News". coastguardnews.com. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  2. ^ "USCG Fifth District Cutters". www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil. Retrieved 2023-09-02.

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