&sq=&lang=&file=File:USCGC_Fir_(WLB-213)_and_lighthouse.jpg) USCGC Fir (WLB-213) passing Tillamook Rock Light, Oregon coast.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USCGC Fir (WLB-213) |
| Builder | Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin, U.S.[1] |
| Launched | 18 August 2003 |
| Commissioned | 8 November 2003 |
| Homeport | Cordova, Alaska, U.S. |
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| Motto | "The Keeper of the Sound" |
| Status | in active service |
| Badge | &sq=&lang=&file=File:USCGC_Fir_(WLB-213)_COA.png) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Juniper-class seagoing buoy tender[3] |
| Type | Buoy tender |
| Displacement | 2,000 long tons (2,000 t) full load[2] |
| Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
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| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 1 UTL & 1 RHI |
| Complement | 7 officers, 41 enlisted |
| Armament | 2 x .50 caliber heavy machine guns |
USCGC Fir (WLB-213) is a Juniper-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. USCGC Fir is under the Operational Control (OPCON) of the Commander of the Seventeenth Coast Guard District and is homeported in Cordova, Alaska. Fir's primary mission is to service and maintain 132 aids to navigation around the Gulf of Alaska. The buoys USCGC Fir maintains are essential to commercial vessel traffic in major shipping ports of the Prince William Sound such as Valdez, Cordova, as well as across the Gulf of Alaska in Yakutat. USCGC Fir conducts heavy lift aids to navigation operations, law enforcement and other missions as directed.
- ^ "Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette WI", Index to U.S. Shipbuilders and Boatbuilders, shipbuildinghistory.com website
- ^ "Characteristics", CGC Fir (WLB-213), U.S. Coast Guard
- ^ "225-foot Seagoing Buoy Tender (WLB)", Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard-Manned Army & Navy Vessels, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office