USCGC Tern (WPB-87343)
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| Name: | USCGC Tern |
| Namesake: | Tern |
| Builder: | Bollinger Shipyards |
| Commissioned: | 2002 |
| Homeport: | San Francisco, California |
| Identification: |
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| Motto: | Golden State Guardians |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |
 Crest of USCGC Tern |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 91 lt |
| Length: | 87 ft (27 m) |
| Beam: | 19 ft 5 in (5.92 m) |
| Draft: | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x MTU diesels |
| Speed: | 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range: | 900 nmi (1,700 km) |
| Endurance: | 5 days |
| Complement: | 10 |
| Armament: | 2 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns |
USCGC Tern (WPB-87343) is an 87-foot (27 m) long Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard built by Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and was commissioned in 2002 to replace the 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter, USCGC Point Brower (WPB-82372). Stationed on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, California, Tern's primary missions include Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security, Search and Rescue, Living Marine Resources, Marine Safety, and Law Enforcement spanning from Mendocino County, CA south to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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