USCGC Dorado

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USCGC Dorado (WPB-87306)
History
Ensign of the United States Coast Guard.svgUnited States
NameUSCGC Dorado
Operator United States Coast Guard
Builder Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
CommissionedApril 1999
Decommissioned10 March 2021
HomeportCrescent City, California
Identification
Motto
  • Per Officium Virtus
  • ("Virtue Through Duty") [1]
FateDecommissioned, awaiting sale to a foreign military partner
General characteristics [2]
Class and type Marine Protector-class patrol boat
Displacement91 long tons (92  t)
Length87 ft 0 in (26.5 m)
Beam19 ft 5 in (5.9 m)
Draft5 ft 7 in (1.7 m)
Propulsion2 × 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) MTU twin-turbocharged, eight-cylinder diesels
Speed25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)+
Range900  nmi (1,700 km)
Endurance3 days
Complement12
Sensors and
processing systems
1 × AN/SPS-73 surface search radar
Armament2 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns

USCGC Dorado (WPB-87306) was the sixth cutter of the Marine Protector-class patrol boats. Dorado was built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and commissioned in April 1999 and decommissioned on 10 March 2021. [3] Dorado's home port was in Crescent City, California and served under Coast Guard Group Humboldt Bay in the Eleventh Coast Guard District.

After decommissioning, Dorado will be transferred to the Department of Defense's Foreign Military Sales Program and is awaiting sale to an allied partner. [3]

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References

  1. "Dorado Photo Gallery". United States Coast Guard. 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  2. "Cutter Dorado (WPB 87306)". United States Coast Guard. 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  3. 1 2 "U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay Patrol Boat Decommissioned After 21 Years of Service". Lost Coast Outpost. Retrieved 2021-03-12.