USCGC Willow (WLB-202)
USCGC Willow in August 2011 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USCGC Willow (WLB-202) |
| Namesake | Willow tree |
| Builder | Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Launched | June 1996 |
| Commissioned | April 1997 |
| Homeport | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Identification |
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| Motto | IN OMNIA PARATUS (Prepared for Everything) |
| Status | in active service |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Juniper-class seagoing buoy tender |
| Displacement | 2,000 long tons (2,000 t) full load |
| Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Speed |
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| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 8 officers, 40 enlisted |
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The USCGC Willow (WLB-202) is a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender, the third of her name and the second of the Juniper-class. She is home-ported in Charleston, South Carolina, where she replaced her sister ship USCGC Oak in servicing 257 aids to navigation in District 7. Willow's area of operations stretches from South Carolina down to Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, Cuba, U.S. Virgin Islands and Haiti. In addition to her primary aids-to-navigation (ATON) role, Willow also performs other duties, such as maritime border security, marine environmental protection, maritime law enforcement, and search and rescue. The Willow transitioned from her former home port of Newport, RI in 2017 after spending over a year in a Baltimore dry dock being refitted and modernized.