USCGC Oak (WLB-211)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 30 July 2001 |
| Launched: | 26 January 2002 |
| Commissioned: | 7 March 2003 |
| Decommissioned: | Still Active |
| Struck: | Still Active |
| Fate: | Still Active |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,000 tons (Full Load) |
| Length: | 225 Feet |
| Beam: | 46 Feet |
| Draft: | 13 Feet |
| Propulsion: | Two 3608 Caterpillar Engines Marine Engines 3100 HP |
| Speed: | 15 knots at full load displacement (80%) rated power |
| Range: | 6,000 miles at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 6 Officers 42 Enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 x .50 caliber machine guns |
| Motto: | ' |
The USCGC Oak (WLB-211) is a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender home-ported in Charleston, South Carolina. The ship tends buoys along the Southeastern U.S. coast and throughout the Caribbean Sea including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Haiti and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Oak also performs other duties, such as maritime border security, marine environmental protection, maritime law enforcement, search and rescue, and domestic icebreaking.
[edit] History
The keel for the Oak was laid on July 30, 2001 at Marinette Marine Corporation in Wisconsin. "Oak" was launched on January 26, 2002. She made the trip from Marinette, Wisconsin to Charleston and was commissioned on March 7, 2003, the first Coast Guard cutter to be commissioned after the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. The Oak took Aids to Navigation responsibility for the waterways of decommissioned USCGC Madrona, USCGC Laurel and USCGC Papaw and regularly sees duty throughout the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean.
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