USCGC Alert (WMEC-127)

For ships with a similar name, see USS Alert.

History

United States
Builder:	American Brown Boveri Electrical Corporation, Camden, NJ
Launched:	30 November 1926
Commissioned:	27 January 1927
Decommissioned:	10 January 1969
Status:	Museum ship
General characteristics
Class & type:	Active-class patrol boat
Displacement:	232 tons
Length:	125 feet
Beam:	23.5 feet
Draft:	7.5 feet
Propulsion:	2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp engines
Speed:	Maximum: 13 knots, 1945 Cruise: 8.0 knots
Range:	3,500 miles Max. Speed: 2,500 miles
Complement:	3 officers, 17 men (1960)
Armament:	1927: 1x 3"/27 1941: 1 x 3"/23, 2 x depth charge tracks 1945: 1 x 40mm/80 (single), 2 x 20mm/80 (single), 2 x depth charge tracks, 2 x mousetraps 1960: 1 x 40mm/60

USCGC Alert (WMEC-127) was a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter and was the fourth cutter to carry the name. The vessel was launched on 30 November 1926, commissioned 27 January 1927 and decommissioned 10 January 1969, later to be converted into a museum ship.

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