USCGC Point Judith
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USCGC Point Judith (WPB-82345) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Tacoma, Washington in 1966 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat.[2][3]
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Name | USCGC Point Judith (WPB-82345) |
Namesake | Point Judith, Narragansett, Rhode Island |
Owner | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. |
Commissioned | 26 July 1966[1] |
Decommissioned | 15 January 1992[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Venezuela as Alcatraz (PG-32) |
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) |
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Speed | 22.9 knots (42.4 km/h; 26.4 mph) |
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Complement | Domestic service : 8 men |
Armament | 1966 • 1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
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