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 USCGC John Midgett
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USCGC John Midgett |
| Namesake | Chief Warrant Officer John Allen Midgett, Jr. |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder | Avondale Shipyards |
| Laid down | 5 April 1971 |
| Launched | 4 September 1971 |
| Commissioned | 17 March 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 2020 |
| Homeport | Seattle, Washington |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Transferred to Vietnam Coast Guard |
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 Vietnam | |
| Name | CSB 8021 |
| Operator | Vietnam Coast Guard |
| Acquired | June 2021 |
| Homeport | Vũng Tàu, Vietnam |
| Identification | MMSI number: 574120086 |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hamilton-class cutter |
| Displacement | 3,050 tons |
| Length | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam | 42 ft (13 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Propulsion | Two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines |
| Speed | 29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) |
| Endurance | 45 days |
| Complement | 184 personnel (24 officers and 160 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems | AN/SPS-40 air-search radar AN/SPS-64V surface-search radar |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/WLR-1CG Countermeasures Receiver |
| Armament | Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS (CIWS system to be removed before transferring to Vietnam) |
USCGC John Midgett (WHEC-726), previously USCGC Midgett (WHEC-726), was the twelfth and latest of the United States Coast Guard's fleet of 378 ft (115 m) high endurance cutters. With her crew of 24 officers and 160 enlisted men and women, she was homeported in Seattle, Washington under the operational and administrative control of Commander, Pacific Area (COMPACAREA). Prior to Fleet Renovation and Maintenance (FRAM), the Midgett's homeport was Alameda, California.
Coast Guard Cutter Midgett's keel was laid April 5, 1971 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana, and she was launched on September 4, 1971. She was commissioned on March 17, 1972. She had another commissioning ceremony on August 21, 1972 at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. This was soon after reaching her first home port of Alameda, California. The Midgett was decommissioned and placed in Fleet Renovation and Maintenance (FRAM) on January 7, 1991 and was placed in "In Commission Special" status as of April 25, 1992. She was fully re-commissioned in February 1993. She was a multipurpose ship, designed to meet the many and varied missions of today's Coast Guard. Her responsibilities included Homeland Security, Search and Rescue, Maritime Law Enforcement, and Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations as well as maintaining military readiness in support of NATO allies and the U.S. Navy. One of ten high endurance cutters on the west coast, her normal patrol areas included the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska and Central American waters, enforcing the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (200-mile or 320-kilometre limit) and drug interdiction laws.
The Midgett appears on the cover of the 1979 Jefferson Starship album Freedom at Point Zero.
On 14 August 2020 the ship was transferred to the Vietnam Coast Guard and was commissioned as coastguard ship CSB 8021, joining its sister ship, the former USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722), now coastguard ship CSB 8020.