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Coast Guard Assets

Explore the aircraft, cutters and boats used by the Coast Guard to conduct various missions throughout the world.

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico and crew repair the center entrance range of the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass, July 6, 2011. Pamlico, a 160-foot inland construction tender, homeported in New Orleans, is manned by 16 crewmembers, who construct fixed aids to navigation from Baton Rouge to the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River and its surrounding waterways.

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico and crew repair the center entrance range of the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico and crew repair the center entrance range of the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass, July 6, 2011. Pamlico, a 160-foot inland construction tender, homeported in New Orleans, is manned by 16 crewmembers, who construct fixed aids to navigation from Baton Rouge to the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River and its surrounding waterways. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer H. V. Caskey.

Characteristics

Length: 100 feet
Beam: 24 feet
Sustained Speed: 10 knots
Range: 1,200 nautical miles at 7 knots

Summary
The one 100-foot WLIC, Coast Guard Cutter Smilax, pushes a 70-foot construction barge. The barges are equipped with cranes and other N aids to navigation equipment to drive piles and work the smaller sized buoys.

Coast Guard Assets

100-foot WLIC class