 USCGC Point Welcome on patrol in Vietnamese waters
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| Name | USCGC Point Welcome (WPB-82329) |
| Namesake | Point Welcome, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, U.S. |
| Owner | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder | Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland, U.S. |
| Commissioned | 14 February 1962 |
| Decommissioned | 29 April 1970 |
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| Type | Patrol Boat (WPB) |
| Displacement | 60 tons |
| Length | 82 ft 10 in (25.25 m) |
| Beam | 17 ft 7 in (5.36 m) max |
| Draft | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 600 hp (447 kW) Cummins diesel engines |
| Speed | 16.8 knots (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph) |
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USCGC Point Welcome (WPB-82329) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point-class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat.
Coast Guard policy in 1962 was not to name cutters under 100 feet (30 m) in length, so she was designated as WPB-82329 when commissioned and renamed Point Welcome in January 1964 when the Coast Guard began naming cutters longer than 65 feet (20 m).[5][6] She was notable for being the victim of a friendly fire incident during the Vietnam War.
- ^ Scotti, p 212
- ^ "Navy Unit Commendation". Mobile Riverine Force Association. Archived from the original on 22 January 2002. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Meritorious Unit Commendation". Mobile Riverine Force Association. Archived from the original on 22 January 2002. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ William R. Wells II, The United States Coast Guard's Piggyback 81mm Mortar/.50 cal. machine gun, Vietnam Magazine, August 1997
- ^ Coast Guard Historian website
- ^ Scheina, p 72