Courtesy Chase Ryan
gCaptain contributor Chase Ryan sent us the above image this week of the U.S. Coast Guard’s 210-foot Reliance-class medium endurance cutter VIGOROUS (WMEC 627) returning to port in Cape May, New Jersey.
This ship was delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard in May 1968 by American Shipbuilding Company located in Ohio.
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