USCGC Alert (WMEC-630)
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USCGC Alert (WMEC-630) is a United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
medium endurance cutter and is the last 210 feet (64 m) medium endurance cutter constructed. The keel was laid on 5 January 1968 at the United States Coast Guard Yard
United States Coast Guard Yard
The United States Coast Guard Yard or just Coast Guard Yard is a United States Coast Guard operated shipyard located on Curtis Bay in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Baltimore city limits. It is the coast guard's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility, and part of the...
at Curtis Bay, Maryland, and she was commissioned on Coast Guard Day
Coast Guard Day
Coast Guard Day is held every August 4 to commemorate the founding of the United States Coast Guard on August 4, 1790, by then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton...
, 4 August 1969. Alert derives her name from the early 19th century revenue cutter , which served in the early days of the Revenue Cutter Service.