USCGC CAPE CURRENT WPB-95307 Naval Cover 1985 Signed ALLIGATOR Cachet MIAMI, FL

Description: USCGC CAPE CURRENT WPB-95307 Naval Cover 1985 Signed ALLIGATOR Cachet MIAMI, FLIt was sent 7 Feb 1985. It was franked with stamp "Vietnam". This cover is in good, but not perfect condition. Please look at the scan and make your own judgement.Member USCS #10385 (I also earned the stamp collecting merit badge as a boy!). Please contact me if you have specific cover needs. I have thousands for sale, including; navals (USS, USNS, USCGC, Coast Guard, ship, Maritime), military posts, event, APO, hotel, postal history, memorabilia, etc. I also offer approvals service with FREE SHIPPING to repeat USA customers.The Cape-class patrol boats were 95-foot (29 m) steel hull patrol boats with aluminum superstructures of the United States Coast Guard. They were unnamed until 1964, when they acquired names of U.S. capes of land. Originally designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), all 36 boats in this class were built at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland. HistoryThe Cape class was originally developed as an ASW boat and as a replacement for the aging, World War II vintage, wooden 83-foot patrol boats (83 feet (25 m) in length) that were used mostly for search and rescue duties.[2] With the outbreak of the Korean War and the requirement tasked to the Coast Guard to secure and patrol port facilities in the United States under the Magnuson Act of 1950, the complete replacement of the 83-foot boat was deferred and the 95-foot boat was used for harbor patrols.[1][3][4] The first 95-foot hulls were laid down at the Coast Guard Yard in 1952 and were officially described as "seagoing patrol cutters". Because Coast Guard policy did not provide for naming cutters under 100 feet (30 m) at the time of their construction they were referred to by their hull number only and gained the Cape-class names in 1964 when the service changed the naming criteria to 65 feet (20 m). The class was named for North American geographic capes.[5] ROU Rio Negro, ex-USCGC Cape Horn, moored at Montevideo in 2024The Cape class was replaced by the 110-foot (34 m) Island class beginning in the late 1980s and many of the decommissioned cutters were transferred to nations of the Caribbean and South America by the Coast Guard. DesignThere were three sub-classes or types that evolved as missions for the boat changed.[1] The Type A was outfitted primarily for ASW. The Type B was fitted more for search and rescue (SAR) with the addition of scramble nets, a towing bitt, and a large searchlight. The Type C vessels were constructed with a deck house aft of the bridge.[2] Sixteen boats were overhauled as part of a renovation program began in the mid-late 1970s. UnitsNumberTypeNameDeliveryDisposition95300ACape Small17 July 1953To Marshall Islands 1987 as Ionmeto 2; sold 199295301ACape Coral21 September 1953Decommissioned 1987; disposition unknown95302ACape Higgon14 October 1953To Uruguay 5 January 1990 as Colonia; decommissioned in 202295303ACape Upright2 July 1953To Bahamas 10 June 1989 as David Tucker (Hull Number P07); Decommissioned in 1996 and donated and sunk as an artificial reef in 1997 as part of Nassau's artificial reef program. A popular dive spot; it is located along an area known as Clifton Wall95304ACape Gull8 June 1953Sold at auction to Fort Lauderdale businessman Dale Scutti who renamed her Robert Edmister in memory of a deceased friend; She was scuttled 11 December 1989 by five eight-pound dynamite charges administered by the Broward Sheriff's Office Bomb & Arson Unit. She now forms a part of the Broward County Artificial Reef Program.95305ACape Hatteras28 July 1953To Mexico 1991 as Cabo Catoche; active95306ACape George10 August 1953To Palau 10 June 199095307ACape Current24 August 1953To Bahamas 30 June 1989 as Austin Smith95308ACape Strait10 September 1953Sunk 9 September 1993 as an artificial reef off Cape May, New Jersey95309ACape Carter7 December 1953To Mexico 2 March 1990 as Cabo Corrientes; active95310ACape Wash15 December 1953To U.S. Navy, 1987 as Olympic Venture, PTB-951, retired c.2010; transferred to Sea Scout ship Intrepid in 2012; transferred to Sea Scout Ship Terrapin in 2022.95311ACape Hedge21 December 1953To Mexico 27 April 1990 as Cabo Corzo; active95312BCape Knox13 June 1955Decommissioned 1989; sold to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1991 as Sirenian. Renamed Yoshka in 2006. Currently working for the Galapagos National Park.95313BCape Morgan5 July 1955To Bahamas 20 October 1989 as Fort Fincastle; struck 199995314BCape Fairweather18 July 1955Decommissioned 1985; disposition unknown95315BLa Crete a Pierrot1 August 1955To Haiti 1956; disposition unknown95316BCape Fox22 August 1955To Bahamas 30 June 1989 as San Salvador II; struck 199995317BCape Jellison7 September 1955transferred to U.S. Navy; transferred to Boys and Girls Club of South San Francisco in 1993 and Sea Scouts as the Cape Hurricane SSS 906. Transferred to Sea Scouts as ship 145 SSS Challenger [1]95318BCape Newagen26 September 1955To Mexico 1982; reportedly transferred to U.S. Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California95319BCape Romain11 October 1955transferred to U.S. Navy 11 August 1989; transferred to Sea Scouts as ship 51 SSS Intrepid [2] in 1993. Scrapped at Lind Marine in Mare Island, Vallejo, California in 2022.95320BCape Starr15 August 1956Decommissioned 1987, active (pilot launch Toucan [3]) at Punta Arenas (Strait of Magellan); Chile; acquired by Transbordadora Austral Broom S.A. in 1995, Rebuild 2010.95321CCape Cross20 August 1958To Micronesia 30 March 1990 as Paluwlap (FSM 03); active95322CCape Horn3 September 1958To Uruguay January 1990 as Rio Negro; active95323CCape Darby3 October 1958To South Korea 24 March 1969 as PB 11; struck 198495324CCape Shoalwater9 December 1958To Bahamas 30 June 1989 as Fenrick Stirrup, struck95325CCape Florida28 October 1958To South Korea 13 November 1968 as PB 7; struck 197195326CCape Corwin14 November 1958To Micronesia 30 September 1990 as Constitution (FSM 04); active95327CCape Porpoise21 November 1958To South Korea 13 November 1968 as PB 8; struck 198495328CCape Henlopen5 December 1958To Costa Rica 28 September 1989 as Astronauta Franklin Chang (SP 951); decommissioned 2006; sunk as an artificial reef the same year95329CCape Kiwanda28 April 1959To South Korea 24 March 1969 as PB 12; struck 198495330CCape Falcon12 May 1959To South Korea 13 November 1968 as PB 9; struck 198495331CCape Trinity26 May 1959To South Korea 24 September 1968 as PB 10; struck 198495332CCape York9 June 1959To Bahamas 30 June 1989 as Edward Williams; struck ????; sunk as artificial reef Bahamas [4]95333CCape Rosier23 June 1959To South Korea 24 September 1968 as PB 3; struck 198495334CCape Sable7 July 1959To South Korea 24 September 1968 as PB 5; struck 198495335CCape Providence21 July 1959To South Korea 24 September 1968 as PB 6; struck 1984

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