Casco-class cutter

USCGC Casco (WHEC-370. ex-WAVP-370) in 1969.
Class overview
Name	Casco
Builders	Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington (3 ships) Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts (2 ships) Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington (10 ships) Associated Shipbuilders, Inc., Seattle, Washington (3 ships)
Built	October 1939-November 1944
In commission	September 1946-April 1988
Completed	18
Lost	0
Retired	18
Preserved	0
General characteristics
Class and type	Casco class cutter
Displacement	2,040 tons standard 2,551 tons full load
Length	310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) overall 300 ft 0 in (91.44 m) (waterline)
Beam	41 ft 1 in (12.52 m)
Draft	12 ft 5 in (3.78 m) full
Installed power	6,000 to 6,080 horsepower (4.48 to 4.54 MW)
Propulsion	Diesel engine, two shafts
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	20,000 nmi (37,000 km; 23,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	151
Sensors and processing systems	Radar, sonar
Armament	1 × 5-inch (127-millimeter) gun 2 × twin 40--millimeter gun mounts (except Absecon 1 quadruple 40-millimeter mount and Dexter no 40-millimeter guns) 2 twin 40--millimeter gun mounts 2 twin 20-mm antiaircraft gun mounts (removed 1957) 1 Hedgehog Mark 10 4 depth charge projectors Triple 12.75-inch (324-millimeter) antisubmarine warfare torpedo tubes fitted mid-1960s

The Casco class was a large class of United States Coast Guard cutters in commission from the late 1940s through the late 1980s.^[1] They saw service as weather reporting ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans until the early 1970s, and some saw combat service during the Vietnam War.