USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)

USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
History
United States
Name	USCGC Rush
Namesake	Richard Rush
Builder	Avondale Shipyards
Cost	$20 million
Launched	16 November 1968
Commissioned	3 July 1969
Homeport	Alameda, California(1970's) Honolulu, Hawaii
Identification	MMSI number: 367283000 Callsign: NLVS
Motto	Kia'i Kai No Ka Oi (Watch Over the Rainbow)
Fate	Transferred to the Bangladesh Navy
General characteristics
Displacement	3,250 tons
Length	378 ft (115.2 m)
Beam	43 ft (13.1 m)
Draft	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion	CODOG plant: 2 Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines 2 Pratt and Whitney gas turbines
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	14,000 miles
Endurance	45 days
Boats & landing craft carried	2 Over-the-Horizon type
Complement	167 personnel
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-40 air-search radar
Armament	as built: Mark 12 5"/38-caliber gun Mk2 81mm Mortar Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes (2x3) post FRAM Otobreda 76 mm gun Phalanx CIWS

USCGC Rush (WHEC-723) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance Hamilton-class cutter. The ship was named after Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush. Rush was launched on November 16, 1968, commissioned on July 3, 1969, and was decommissioned on February 3, 2015 after 45 years of Coast Guard service.

As of January 2017, the ship serves in the Bangladesh Navy as BNS Somudra Avijan.