USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720)
USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) in 1969
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| Name: | USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) |
| Namesake: | John Sherman |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Laid down: | January 25, 1967 |
| Launched: | September 23, 1967 |
| Commissioned: | September 3, 1968 |
| Recommissioned: | July 1989 |
| Decommissioned: | May 1986 |
| Homeport: | Honolulu, HI |
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| Status: | Active in service as of 2015[update] |
| Notes: | In July 2001, Sherman became the first Coast Guard cutter to circumnavigate the world. |
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| Displacement: | 3,250 tons |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | 14,000 miles |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Complement: | 167 personnel |
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AN/SPS-40 air-search radar |
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USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) is a U. S. Coast Guard high endurance cutter now based out of Honolulu, Hawaii.
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.
Sherman was involved in search and rescue efforts following the sinking of F/V Big Valley near Saint Paul Island, Alaska, on January 15, 2005.
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.
CGC Sherman’s keel was laid on January 25, 1967 at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was launched on September 23 of the same year and was commissioned on September 3, 1968.
CGC Sherman was originally homeported in Boston, Massachusetts where her primary mission was ocean station patrol in the North Atlantic.
In 1970, Sherman was assigned to Coast Guard Squadron Three in Vietnam. Her tasking during the conflict was primarily in support of Operation Market Time, which involved sorting through hundreds of small vessels off the Vietnamese coast in search of enemy weapons smugglers. Sherman’s crew inspected some 900 vessels during her 10-month tour in Southeast Asia. The old 5” gun (now replaced by a 76mm mount) answered 152 calls for naval gunfire support, including a running fight on the night of 21 November 1970 which resulted in sinking the North Vietnamese armed freighter SL-3, which was carrying tons of enemy munitions.
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