USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716)
The USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) was a Coast Guard high endurance cutter commissioned in 1967 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the sixth ship or boat to bear the name of Alexander J. Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison (1814–1816). She is one of twelve Hamilton class cutters built for the Coast Guard.
The Dallas served in the Atlantic Ocean, venturing as far away as the Black Sea and Africa on occasion.
The Dallas was at first home ported at the former Coast Guard base on Governors Island, New York. She was relocated to her current homeport of Charleston, South Carolina in September 1996. She was decommissioned on 30 March 2012, and was transferred to the Philippines on May 22, 2012 as an excess defense article through the Foreign Assistance Act.
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