7-568: (Redirected from Cape-class ) There are multiple classes of vessels known as Cape class : Cape-class cutter , 95-foot cutters built for the United States Coast Guard circa 1950 Cape-class maintenance ship , modified World War II freighters that served in the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Netherlands Navy Cape-class motor lifeboat , 47 motor lifeboats first introduced into
14-538: The Caribbean and South America by the Coast Guard. There were three sub-classes or types that evolved as missions for the boat changed. The Type A was outfitted primarily for ASW. The Type B was fitted more for search and rescue (SAR) with the addition of scramble nets, a towing bitt, and a large searchlight. The Type C vessels were constructed with a deck house aft of the bridge. Sixteen boats were overhauled as part of
21-703: The United States Coast Guard . They were unnamed until 1964, when they acquired names of U.S. capes of land. Originally designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), all 36 boats in this class were built at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland . The Cape class was originally developed as an ASW boat and as a replacement for the aging, World War II vintage, wooden 83-foot patrol boats (83 feet (25 m) in length) that were used mostly for search and rescue duties. With
28-716: The Canadian Coast Guard in 1999 Cape-class patrol boat , a class of large patrol boats operated by the Australian Border Force, Royal Australian Navy, and the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard Cape class, or capesize , cargo vessels too large to transit the Suez Canal Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cape class . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
35-503: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cape_class&oldid=1071317022 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Ship classes Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cape-class cutter The Cape-class patrol boat s were 95-foot (29 m) steel hull patrol boats with aluminum superstructures of
42-725: The outbreak of the Korean War and the requirement tasked to the Coast Guard to secure and patrol port facilities in the United States under the Magnuson Act of 1950 , the complete replacement of the 83-foot boat was deferred and the 95-foot boat was used for harbor patrols. The first 95-foot hulls were laid down at the Coast Guard Yard in 1952 and were officially described as "seagoing patrol cutters". Because Coast Guard policy did not provide for naming cutters under 100 feet (30 m) at
49-471: The time of their construction they were referred to by their hull number only and gained the Cape-class names in 1964 when the service changed the naming criteria to 65 feet (20 m). The class was named for North American geographic capes . The Cape class was replaced by the 110-foot (34 m) Island class beginning in the late 1980s and many of the decommissioned cutters were transferred to nations of
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