USCGC Dorado
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| File:United States Coast Guard Cutter DORADO (WPB 87306).jpg USCGC Dorado (WPB-87306) | |
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| Name | USCGC Dorado |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Commissioned | April 1999 |
| Decommissioned | 10 March 2021 |
| Homeport | Crescent City, California |
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| Fate | Decommissioned, awaiting sale to a foreign military partner |
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| Class & type | Marine Protector-class patrol boat |
| Displacement | 91 long tons (92 t) |
| Length | 87 ft 0 in (26.5 m) |
| Beam | 19 ft 5 in (5.9 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) MTU twin-turbocharged, eight-cylinder diesels |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)+ |
| Range | 900 nmi (1,700 km) |
| Endurance | 3 days |
| Complement | 12 |
| Sensors & processing systems | 1 × AN/SPS-73 surface search radar |
| Armament | 2 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns |
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USCGC Dorado (WPB-87306) was the sixth cutter of the Marine Protector-class patrol boats. Dorado was built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and commissioned in April 1999 and decommissioned on 10 March 2021.[3] Dorado's home port was in Crescent City, California and served under Coast Guard Group Humboldt Bay in the Eleventh Coast Guard District.
After decommissioning, Dorado was transferred to the Department of Defense's Foreign Military Sales Program,[3] and was transferred to the Lebanese Navy in 2023.[4]
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