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United States | |
Name | USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) |
Namesake | John Sherman |
Builder | Avondale Shipyards |
Laid down | January 25, 1967 |
Launched | September 23, 1967 |
Commissioned | September 3, 1968 |
Recommissioned | July 1989 |
Decommissioned | May 1986 |
Homeport | Honolulu, HI |
Motto | “Honorable and Faithful” |
Honors and awards | Golden Eagle award by White House Drug Czar |
Status | Active in service as of 2011[update] |
Notes | In July 2001, Sherman became the first Coast Guard cutter to circumnavigate the world. |
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Sri Lanka | |
Name | SLNS Gajabahu |
Namesake | King Gajabahu I |
Operator | Sri Lanka Navy |
Builder | Avondale Shipyards |
Laid down | January 25, 1967 |
Launched | September 3, 1968 |
Acquired | 27 August 2018 |
Commissioned | 6 June 2019 |
Status | Active |
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Displacement | 3,250 tons |
Length | 378 ft (115 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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Speed | 29 knots |
Range | 14,000 miles |
Endurance | 45 days |
Complement | 133 personnel (including 22 officers) |
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SLNS Gajabahu (P626) (Sinhala: ගජබාහු, romanized: Gajabāhu) is an Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy. The ship is the second ship named after King Gajabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lankan Kingdom of Anuradhapura.
Formerly, it was USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) a United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class high endurance cutter named for John Sherman, the 32nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and author of the Sherman Antitrust Act.[1]