USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716)
USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716)
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| Name: | Dallas |
| Namesake: | Alexander J. Dallas |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Commissioned: | 11 March 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 March 2012 |
| Homeport: | Charleston, South Carolina |
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| Status: | Transferred to the Philippine Navy on 22 May 2012 as BRP Ramon Alcaraz |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hamilton-class cutter |
| Displacement: | 3,250 tons |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 14,000 mi (22,531 km) |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Complement: | 167 personnel |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-40 air-search radar and MK 92 Fire Control System |
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USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter commissioned in 1967 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the sixth ship or boat to bear the name of Alexander J. Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison (1814–1816). She is one of twelve Hamilton-class cutters built for the Coast Guard.
Dallas served in the Atlantic Ocean, venturing as far away as the Black Sea and Africa on occasion.
Dallas was at first home ported at the former Coast Guard base on Governors Island, New York. She was relocated to her final homeport of Charleston, South Carolina in September 1996. She was decommissioned on 30 March 2012, and was transferred to the Philippines on May 22, 2012 as an excess defense article through the Foreign Assistance Act.
In her earlier years, Dallas collected meteorological and oceanographic data while on ocean station as part of the Gate Project, and she assisted commercial aircraft crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
During seven combat patrols off the coast of Vietnam, Dallas undertook 161 gunfire support missions involving 7,665 rounds of her 5-inch ammunition. This resulted in 58 sampans destroyed and 29 Viet Cong supply routes, bases, camps, or rest areas damaged or destroyed. Her 5-inch (127 mm) guns made her very valuable to the naval missions in the area.
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