Point-class cutter

Class overview
Builders	Coast Guard Yard 1960–1963, 1970; J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. 1966–1967
Operators	United States Coast Guard  Panama
Preceded by	Cape class
Succeeded by	Marine Protector class
Built	1960–1970
In commission	1960–2003
Completed	79
Retired	79
General characteristics (1960)
Type	Patrol boat (WPB)
Displacement	60–69 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	Originally (2) 600 hp (450 kW) Cummins diesel, thru hull number 82330 ex. hulls 82314, 82318 (2) 800 hp (600 kW) Cummins diesel, hulls 82331 and up and hull 82318 (2) 1,000 hp (750 kW) gas turbine, hull 82314
Speed	16.8 kn (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph) (1960)
Range	577 miles at maximum sustained speed of 14.5 knots 1271 miles at 10.7 knots economic speed (1960)
Complement	domestic service, 1 officer and 9 enlisted; Vietnam service, 2 officers, 8 enlisted
Armament	1960 1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon Vietnam service 5 × M2 Browning machine guns 1 × 81 mm M29 mortar[1]

The Point-class cutter was a class of 82-foot patrol vessels designed to replace the United States Coast Guard's aging 83-foot wooden hull patrol boat being used at the time. The design utilized a mild steel hull and an aluminum superstructure. The Coast Guard Yard discontinued building the 95-foot Cape-class cutter to have the capacity to produce the 82-foot Point-class patrol boat in 1960.^[2] They served as patrol vessels used in law enforcement and search and rescue along the coasts of the United States and the Caribbean. They also served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. They were replaced by the 87-foot Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boats beginning in the late 1990s.