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65-foot small harbor tug

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  • ️Fri Apr 26 2019

Coast Guard Assets

Explore the aircraft, cutters and boats used by the Coast Guard to conduct various missions throughout the world.

Coast Guard Cutter Line, a 65-foot small harbor tug, sits in the Upper Bay of New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty, February 6, 2018. The Line is an homeported in Bayonne, New Jersey, and is one of 11 small ice breaking tugs. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Strohmaier)

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The Coast Guard Yard lifts the Coast Guard Cutter Hawser into the water to continue planned maintenance on the 65 foot small harbor tug home ported in Bayonne, N.J. Service to the fleet!

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bollard, a 65-foot Small Harbor Tug, transits on the ice-covered Connecticut River near Essex, Connecticut, Jan. 18, 2018. The Bollard is being used on the Connecticut River to break apart ice jams causing floods along the Connecticut River in support of Operation - Reliable Energy for Northeast Winters (RENEW). (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Frank Iannazzo-Simmons)

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Characteristics

Length: 65 feet
Beam: 16 feet
Speed: 10 knots
Range: 850 nautical miles at 9.8 knots; 2,700 nautical miles at 5.8 knots
Ice breaking: up to 12 inches

Summary
The 65-foot small harbor tugs are multi-mission cutters. Their primary missions are domestic ice breaking, port security, search and rescue, and law enforcement operations on rivers and inland areas.

Description

The 65-foot harbor tugs were built between 1962 and 1967 that have the distinction of operating only on the East Coast, from Maine to Virginia.

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