USCGC Alex Haley#Photos
{{short description|U.S. Coast Guard cutter}}
{{use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{more citations needed|date=January 2010}}
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| infobox caption = yes }} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:USCG ALEX HALEY.jpg | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United States | Ship flag = {{USN flag|1996}} | Ship name = Edenton | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship registry = | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship awarded = | Ship builder = | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = 28 March 1967 | Ship launched = 15 May 1968 | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship completed = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = 23 March 1971 | Ship recommissioned = | Ship decommissioned = 29 March 1996 | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship reclassified = | Ship refit = | Ship struck = 29 December 1997 | Ship reinstated = | Ship homeport = | Ship identification = *{{MMSI Number|338945000}}
| Ship motto = | Ship nickname = | Ship honours = | Ship honors = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Transferred to USCG | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = title | Ship country = United States | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} | Ship name = Alex Haley | Ship namesake = Alex Haley | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship registry = | Ship route = | Ship acquired = 10 July 1999 | Ship commissioned = | Ship recommissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship reclassified = | Ship refit = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship homeport = Kodiak, Alaska | Ship identification = Hull number: WMEC-39 | Ship motto = Find the good and praise it. | Ship nickname = "The Bulldog of the Bering"{{cite web |title=USCGC Alex Haley |url=https://www.pacificarea.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Cutters/cgcAlexHaley/ |website=U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard |access-date=3 October 2023}} | Ship honours = | Ship honors = | Ship captured = | Ship status = {{Ship in active service}} | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = {{sclass|Edenton|salvage and rescue ship}} | Ship displacement = *2,592 tons (lt)
| Ship length = {{convert|282.67|ft|m|abbr=on}}Tate, Sr., Charles W. USS Edenton (ATS-1) Tactical and Maneuvering Trial Results, p. 3 | Ship beam = {{convert|59|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draft = {{convert|17|ft|m|abbr=on}}, {{convert|18|ft|m|abbr=on}}max | Ship depth = | Ship hold depth = | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = * 4 Caterpillar diesel engines,
| Ship speed = {{convert|18|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range = 10,000 miles | Ship endurance = | Ship test depth = | Ship boats = | Ship capacity = | Ship troops = | Ship complement = * 10 officers
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USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) is a United States Coast Guard Cutter and former United States Navy vessel that was recommissioned for Coast Guard duty on 10 July 1999. It first entered service as USS Edenton (ATS-1), an {{sclass|Edenton|salvage and rescue ship}} on 23 January 1971. In 1995, Edenton won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet.
The conversion from a salvage ship to a Coast Guard cutter involved the removal of the stern towing machine, forward crane, and A-frame, and the installation of a flight deck, retractable hangar, and air-search radar. Additionally, her four aging Paxman diesel engines were replaced with four 16-cylinder Caterpillar diesels.
The cutter was named after author and journalist Alex Haley, the first chief journalist of the Coast Guard, the first African-American to reach the rank of chief petty officer, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Haley served in the Coast Guard for 20 years.
The vessel's current home port is Kodiak, Alaska at the Coast Guard Base Kodiak from where she carries out her Fishery Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue primary missions.
In fiction
In the 2007 novel Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event by James H. Cobb, Alex Haley is the ship that takes the heroes out to the island where a Tu-4 laden with anthrax crashed during the Cold War.{{cite book|last=Cobb|first=James H.|title=Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event|publisher=Orion Books|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7528-7641-2}}
In the 2016 novel Goliath by Shawn Corridan & Gary Waid, Alex Haley and {{USCGC|Dauntless|WMEC-624|6}} are the two Coast Guard cutters that respond to the fire aboard and subsequent stranding of a Russian ULCC.{{cite book|last1=Corridan|first1=Shawn|last2=Waid|first2=Gary|title=Goliath|publisher=Oceanview Publishing|location=Longboat Key, Florida|year=2016|isbn=978-1-60809-215-4}}
Photos
File:USS Edenton (ATS-1) at anchor in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia Capes (USA), 8 August 1989 (330-CFD-DN-ST-89-11241).jpg|USS Edenton before becoming Alex Haley
File:USCGC Alex Haley transfers detained fishing vessel to China Coast Guard 2301 in Sea of Japan (5-6).jpg|USCGC Alex Haley in Sea of Japan
File:ALEX HALEY ON PATROL (FOR RELEASE) (2898959553).jpg|USCGC Alex Haley on Patrol in Cook Inlet, Alaska
References
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=Sources=
- [http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/haleywmec.asp USCGC Alex Haley]
- {{cite web |last1=Tate, Sr |first1=Charles W. |title=USS Edenton (ATS-1) Tactical and Manuvering Trial Results |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0904368.pdf |website=Defense Technical Information Center |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense |access-date=24 May 2023}}
External links
{{Commons category|USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)}}
- {{Official website|http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcAlexHaley/default.asp}}
- {{navsource|09/31/3101|USS Edenton (ATS-1}}
{{Edenton class salvage and rescue ships}}
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Category:Edenton-class salvage and rescue ships