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United States | |
Name | USCGC Crocodile |
Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
Homeport | St Petersburg, Florida |
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Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat |
Displacement | 91 long tons (92 t) |
Length | 87 ft 0 in (26.5 m) |
Beam | 19 ft 5 in (5.9 m) |
Draft | 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) |
Propulsion | 2 x MTU 8V396TE94 diesels |
Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
Range | 900 nmi (1,700 km) |
Endurance | 3 days |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 high-speed deployable underway |
Complement | 10 |
Armament | 2 × .50-caliber M2 Browning machine guns |
USCGC Crocodile (WPB-87369) is the sixty-ninth Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat. Its home port is St Petersburg, Florida.
On December 30, 2021, the Crocodile participated in the search conducted between Cedar Key and west of Sea Horse Reef for two men who went missing after their 31-foot (9.4 m) vessel Dog House sank. Other Coast Guard air and surface assets and crews involved in the search included: