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USCGC Alex Haley
U.S. Coast Guard cutter
U.S. Coast Guard cutter
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| country | United States | ||||||
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| name | Edenton | ||||||
| laid_down | 28 March 1967 | ||||||
| launched | 15 May 1968 | ||||||
| commissioned | 23 March 1971 | ||||||
| decommissioned | 29 March 1996 | ||||||
| struck | 29 December 1997 | ||||||
| identification | * | ||||||
| fate | Transferred to USCG | ||||||
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| country | United States | ||||||
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| name | Alex Haley | ||||||
| namesake | Alex Haley | ||||||
| acquired | 10 July 1999 | ||||||
| homeport | Kodiak, Alaska | ||||||
| identification | Hull number: WMEC-39 | ||||||
| motto | Find the good and praise it. | ||||||
| nickname | "The Bulldog of the Bering" | ||||||
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| displacement | *2,592 tons (lt) | ||||||
| length | 282.67 ft | ||||||
| beam | 59 ft | ||||||
| draft | 17 ft, 18 ftmax | ||||||
| propulsion | * 4 Caterpillar diesel engines, | ||||||
| * {{convert | 6,800 | shp | lk | in | abbr=on}} | ||
| speed | 18 kn | ||||||
| range | 10,000 miles | ||||||
| complement | * 10 officers | ||||||
| armament | * 2 × Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm Machine Gun Systems | ||||||
| * 2 × [[M2 Browning | {{convert | 0.5 | in | mm | abbr | on | 1}}]] guns |
| aircraft_facilities | Flight deck and hangar |
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Callsign: NZPO
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Hull number: ATS-1
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3,484 tons (fl)
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twin screws,
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6,800 shp
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90 enlisted
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4 aircrew
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2 × 0.5 in guns
USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) is a United States Coast Guard Cutter and former United States Navy vessel that was recommissioned for Coast Guard duty on 10 July 1999. It first entered service as USS Edenton (ATS-1), an on 23 January 1971. In 1995, Edenton won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet.
The conversion from a salvage ship to a Coast Guard cutter involved the removal of the stern towing machine, forward crane, and A-frame, and the installation of a flight deck, retractable hangar, and air-search radar. Additionally, her four aging Paxman diesel engines were replaced with four 16-cylinder Caterpillar diesels.
The cutter was named after author and journalist Alex Haley, the first chief journalist of the Coast Guard, the first African-American to reach the rank of chief petty officer, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Haley served in the Coast Guard for 20 years.
The vessel's current home port is Kodiak, Alaska at the Coast Guard Base Kodiak from where she carries out her Fishery Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue primary missions.
In fiction
In the 2007 novel Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event by James H. Cobb, Alex Haley is the ship that takes the heroes out to the island where a Tu-4 laden with anthrax crashed during the Cold War.
In the 2016 novel Goliath by Shawn Corridan & Gary Waid, Alex Haley and are the two Coast Guard cutters that respond to the fire aboard and subsequent stranding of a Russian ULCC.
Photos
File:USS Edenton (ATS-1) at anchor in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia Capes (USA), 8 August 1989 (330-CFD-DN-ST-89-11241).jpg|USS Edenton before becoming Alex Haley File:USCGC Alex Haley transfers detained fishing vessel to China Coast Guard 2301 in Sea of Japan (5-6).jpg|USCGC Alex Haley in Sea of Japan File:ALEX HALEY ON PATROL (FOR RELEASE) (2898959553).jpg|USCGC Alex Haley on Patrol in Cook Inlet, Alaska
References
Notes
Sources
References
- "USCGC Alex Haley". U.S. Coast Guard.
- Tate, Sr., Charles W. USS ''Edenton'' (ATS-1) Tactical and Maneuvering Trial Results, p. 3
- Cobb, James H.. (2007). "Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event". [[Orion Publishing Group.
- (2016). "Goliath". [[Oceanview Publishing]].
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