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	Active class patrol boat, 1962
History
United States
Name	USCGC Vigilant
Builder	American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Launched	25 April 1927
Commissioned	3 May 1927
Decommissioned	1966
Fate	Sold in 1966
General characteristics
Class and type	Active-class patrol boat
Displacement	232 tons
Length	125 feet
Beam	23.5 feet
Draft	7.5 feet
Propulsion	2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp engines
Speed	Maximum: 13 knots, 1945; Cruise: 8.0 knots;
Range	3,500 miles; Max. Speed: 2,500 miles;
Complement	3 officers, 17 men (1960)
Armament	1927: 1x 3"/27 1941: 1 x 3 in (76 mm)/23, 2 x depth charge tracks; 1945: 1 x 40 mm Bofors/80 (single), 2 x 20 mm Oerlikon/80 (single), 2 x depth charge tracks, 2 x mousetraps; 1960: 1 x 40mm/60;

USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154) was an Active-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard. She was 125-foot, steel-hulled, twin-screw, diesel-powered cutter primarily outfitted for Aids to Navigation work. On the night of 24 January 1931, she was involved in the chase and capture of Canadian rum-running schooner Josephine K, which was captured off of New York Harbor with a cargo of whisky valued at $100,000 confiscated. The crew was exonerated on 31 January of blame by a Coast Guard board of inquiry in the death of the captain of the Josephine K, who was mortally wounded by a one-pound shot during the chase.^[1]

WPC-154 was involved in the rescue of survivors of several U-boat attacks off central Florida in the 1940s.

References

^ United Press, "Commander of Coast Guard Vessel Commended for Capture of Canadian Vessel Though Captain Slain", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Sunday 1 February 1931, Volume LXVII, Number 154, page 2.