USCGC Thetis (WMEC-910)

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USCGC Thetis (WMEC-910)
History
Flag of the United States Coast Guard.svgUnited States
NameUSCGC Thetis
Namesake Thetis
Builder Robert Derecktor Shipyard Incorporated, Rhode Island
Laid downAugust 24, 1984
LaunchedApril 29, 1986
CommissionedJune 30, 1989
Homeport Key West, Florida
Identification
MottoImprovise - Adapt - Overcome
StatusIn active service
General characteristics
Class and type Famous-class cutter
Displacement1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
Length270 ft (82 m)
Beam38 ft (12 m)
Draught14.5 ft (4.4 m)
PropulsionTwo turbo-charged ALCO V-18 diesel engines
Speed19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph)
Range9,900 nautical miles (18,300 km; 11,400 mi)
Boats & landing
craft carried
  • 1 × Over-the-Horizon (OTH) Interceptor
  • 1 × RHI with twin 90 HP outboard engines
Complement100 personnel (14 officers, 86 enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys		 AN/SLQ-32 (receive only)
Armament
Aircraft carried

USCGC Thetis (WMEC-910) is a United States Coast Guard Famous-class medium endurance cutter. She is the 10th ship of the Famous Class cutters designed and built for the U.S. Coast Guard and the third Coast Guard cutter to bear the name. [1] Laid down August 24, 1984 by Robert Derecktor Shipyard Incorporated of Middletown, Rhode Island. She was launched April 29, 1986 and named for the cutters USRC Thetis, which served from 1899 to 1916, and USCGC Thetis (WPC-115), which served from 1931 to 1947. The Greek goddess Thetis, incidentally, was the mother of Achilles. The Famous Class cutter Thetis was commissioned on June 30, 1989. She conducts patrols throughout the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Her homeport is Key West, Florida. [1]

Her duties include law enforcement, search and rescue, homeland security, and national defense. [1] Patrols last anywhere up to two to three months.

As part of Operation Martillo, the Thetis conducted drug interdiction missions in the Eastern Pacific, along the coasts of Central and South America. [2] Its 68-day patrol netted 15,000 pounds of cocaine and other illegal narcotics. [3]

In December 2021, after visiting Fortaleza in Brazil, the Thetis escorted the new fast response cutters Glen Harris and Emlen Tunnell across the Atlantic Ocean on the way to their assigned homeport of Manama, Bahrain. [4] [5] On January 5, 2022, the three Coast Guard vessels and a Royal Moroccan Navy frigate rescued 103 migrants from two rafts that were taking on water and also recovered two bodies forty miles west of the Moroccan coast. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "USCGC THETIS (WMEC 910): HISTORY OF THTIS". United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Defense Media Activity. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returns home after seizing $140 million of cocaine in Pacific Ocean | Coast Guard News".
  3. ↑ Phillips, Doug (December 18, 2017). "On 68-day patrol, cutter crew seizes 15,000 pounds of cocaine; saves 1 sea turtle, Coast Guard says". Sun-Sentinel.com. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ "USCGC Thetis in Brazil". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area. December 22, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  5. ↑ "The USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910), USCGC Glen Harris (WPC 1144), and USCGC Emlen Tunnell (WPC 1145) arrive in Mindelo, Cabo Verde". U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command. December 29, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  6. ↑ "U.S. Coast Guard, partners conduct joint rescue of migrants in Atlantic". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area. January 5, 2022. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  7. ↑ Liebermann, Oren (January 7, 2022). "US and Moroccan Navy rescue 103 migrants off African coast". Cable News Network, Inc. Retrieved January 22, 2022.

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Thetis underway near Jacksonville, Florida, May 2009


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