 USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) in 1969 |
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| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Laid down: | January 25, 1967 |
| Launched: | September 3, 1968 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| Homeport: | Alameda, California |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,250 tons |
| Length: | 378 feet |
| Beam: | 43 feet |
| Draught: | 15 feet |
| Propulsion: | Two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | 14,000 miles |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Complement: | 167 personnel |
| Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPS-40 air-search radar |
| Armament: | Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS |
USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) is a U. S. Coast Guard high endurance cutter based out of Integrated Support Command Alameda, Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California. Sherman was laid down January 25, 1967 at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana and launched September 3, 1968. She was named for John Sherman, the 32nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and author of the Sherman Antitrust Act. On March 17 2007 Sherman stopped the Panamanian motor vessel Gatun about 20 miles off a Panamanian island. Gatun was loaded with 20 tons of cocaine with an estimated retail street value of $600 million. The seizure was the largest drug bust in US history and the largest interdiction at sea.[1]
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