Tuesday, September 25, 2018

CG to transfer patrol boats to Ukraine


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard is scheduled to implement the transfer of two former 110-foot Coast Guard cutters, Drummond and Cushing, to the Ukraine during a ceremony Sept. 27 at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Md. (Source: Coast Guard media advisory 09/25/18) Gulf Coast Note: Both cutters were built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, La. USCGC Cushing (WPB-1321) was commissioned in the Spring of 1988 at Coast Guard Base Mobile, Ala.