USCGC Point Highland
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USCGC Point Highland (WPB-82333) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1962 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. Since the Coast Guard policy in 1962 was not to name cutters under 100 feet (30 m) in length, it was designated as WPB-82333 when commissioned and acquired the name Point Highland in January 1964 when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet (20 m).[2][3]
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CG-82333 (later-Point Highland), 1965, underway off Crisfield, Maryland. | |
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United States | |
Name | USCGC Point Highland (WPB-82333) |
Namesake | Point Highland, Everglades National Park, Florida |
Owner | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland |
Commissioned | 27 June 1962[1] |
Decommissioned | 24 July 2001[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Trinidad and Tobago, 24 July 2001[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol Boat (WPB) |
Displacement | 60 tons |
Length | 82 ft 10 in (25.25 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 7 in (5.36 m) max |
Draft | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 22.9 knots (42.4 km/h; 26.4 mph) |
Range |
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Complement | Domestic service : 8 men |
Armament | 1962 • 1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon[2] |
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