USCGC Rush (WHEC-723)
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Name: | USCGC Rush |
Namesake: | Richard Rush |
Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
Cost: | $20 million |
Launched: | 16 November 1968 |
Homeport: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
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Motto: | "Kia'i Kai No Ka Oi" |
Fate: | Transferred to the Bangladesh Navy |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 3,250 tons |
Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Propulsion: | |
Speed: | 29 knots |
Range: | 14,000 miles |
Endurance: | 45 days |
Boats & landing craft carried: | 2 Over-the-Horizon type |
Complement: | 167 personnel |
Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPS-40 air-search radar |
Armament: | Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS |
USCGC Rush (WHEC-723) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance Hamilton-class cutter that before being decommissioned was based out of USCG Base Sand Island, Honolulu, Hawaii, and performed regular patrols of Alaskan waters and the Bering Sea. The Rush has the distinction of having ridden out "the most powerful storm, at least in terms of depth of pressure, to affect Alaska in modern history [of] October 25-26, 1977." Under command of Captain Norman Fernald the Rush sustained damage to her sonar dome and superstructure, but completed her patrol.
As all Hamilton-class cutters, the Rush was constructed at Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana and launched November 16, 1968, she was the fifth Coast Guard Cutter to be named after Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush, the nation's eighth Secretary of Treasury.
Decommissioning
On February 3, 2015, the United States Coast Guard officially decommissioned the Rush with a ceremony held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bangladesh Navy
The Coast Guard has transferred the "Rush" (now the BNS Somudra Avijan) to the Bangladesh Navy as part of a Foreign Military Sale through the Foreign Assistance Act.[1]
The Rush is the Bangladesh Navy's second Hamilton-class cutter acquisition. The Bangladesh Navy's first Hamilton-class cutter acquired was the USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) given to Bangladesh in 2013. The Jarvis is now named the BNS Somudra Joy (F-28). The Bangladesh Navy designates these former Hamilton-class cutters as a "patrol frigate."
Awards
USCGC Rush has earned numerous awards in her storied history. Many of the Ship's awards were earned for heroic participation in the Vietnam War, as part of Operation Market Time. Awards listed were current to May 2014.[2]
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Notes
- ↑ "USCG Transfers Cutter Rush Over To Bangladesh Navy". VesselFinder. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ↑ Medals and Awards Manual, p. 2-5 to 19-1
References
United States Coast Guard. (2008). Medals and Awards Manual: COMDTINST M1650.25D. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.