USCGC Decisive
{{Short description|US Coast Guard vessel}}
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USCGC Decisive (WMEC-629) was a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. Decisive{{'}}s keel was laid on 12 May 1967, at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland. Decisive was launched 14 December 1967, and commissioned 23 August 1968. Following its commissioning in 1968, the ship was homeported in New Castle, New Hampshire. The cutter moved homeports several times during its tenure, including St. Petersburg, Florida and Pascagoula, Mississippi before its final assignment to Pensacola, Florida. It was decommissioned on 2 March 2023.{{cite press release |author= |title=USCGC Decisive decommissioned after 55 years of service |url=https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3316466/uscgc-decisive-decommissioned-after-55-years-of-service/ |location=Washington DC |publisher=Defense Media Activity |agency=United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security |date=2 March 2023 |access-date=2023-10-01}} It is currently undergoing modernisation to be transferred to the Sri Lanka Navy.{{cite news |title=US Coast Guard to transfer fourth vessel to SLN |url=https://island.lk/us-coast-guard-to-transfer-fourth-vessel-to-sln/ |access-date=11 January 2025}}
References
{{USGovernment|url=https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3316466/uscgc-decisive-decommissioned-after-55-years-of-service/ |title=USCGC Decisive decommissioned after 55 years of service}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20230601021357/http://www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil/Area-Cutters/CGCDECISIVE/ Decisive home page as of 1 June 2023]
- [https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Water/All/Article/3315428/decisive-1968-wmec-629/ Decisive page at U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office.]
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Category:Historic American Engineering Record in Mississippi
Category:Reliance-class cutters
Category:Ships built by the United States Coast Guard Yard
Category:Ships of the United States Coast Guard
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