USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
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| Name: | USCGC Rush |
| Namesake: | Richard Rush |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Cost: | $20 million |
| Launched: | 16 November 1968 |
| Homeport: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Motto: | "Kia'i Kai No Ka Oi" |
| Status: | Decommissioned 3 February 2015 |
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| Displacement: | 3,250 tons |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | 14,000 miles |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
2 Over-the-Horizon type |
| Complement: | 167 personnel |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-40 air-search radar |
| Armament: | Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS |
USCGC Rush (WHEC-723) was a U.S. Coast Guard high endurance Hamilton-class cutter that before being decommissioned was based out of Honolulu, Hawaii.
As all Hamilton-class cutters, the Rush was constructed at Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana and launched November 16, 1968, she was the fifth Coast Guard Cutter to be named after Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush, the nation's eighth Secretary of Treasury.
On February 3, 2015, the United States Coast Guard officially decommissioned the Rush with a ceremony held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Coast Guard has transferred the "Rush" (now the BNS Somudra Avijan) to the Bangladesh Navy as part of a Foreign Military Sale through the Foreign Assistance Act. The transfer of the ship is [1].
The Rush is the Bangladesh Navy's second Hamilton-class cutter acquisition. The Bangladesh Navy's first Hamilton-class cutter acquired was the USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) given to Bangladesh in 2013. The Jarvis is now named the BNS Somudra Joy (F-28). The Bangladesh Navy designates these former Hamilton-class cutters as a "patrol frigate."
USCGC Rush has earned numerous awards in her storied history. Many of the Ship's awards were earned for heroic participation in the Vietnam War, as part of Operation Market Time. Awards listed were current to May 2014.
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