Item  #  USCG HEC

USCG High Endurance Cutter 18"

• Overall dimensions: 16" long x 5" wide x 15" H (1:35 scale). 3 Lbs.
• Our USCG High Endurance Cutter has a planked wooden hull.
• This USCG motor lifeboat is built with rare and high quality woods.
• This United Coast Guard boat sits perfectly on a large wood base.
• This accurate model ship for sale meticulously painted to the actual United States Coast Guard model boat.
• Our United States Coast Guard model boat requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as the original plans, drawings, paintings and pictures.

The 378-foot High Endurance Cutter class are the largest cutters, aside from the three major Icebreakers, ever built for the Coast Guard. They are powered by diesel engines and gas turbines, and have controllable-pitch propellers. Equipped with a helicopter flight deck, retractable hangar, and the facilities to support helicopter deployment, these 12 cutters were introduced to the Coast Guard inventory in the 1960s. Beginning in the 1980s and ending in 1992, the entire class was modernized through the Fleet Renovation and Modernization (FRAM) program. The first of the class was the Hamilton (WHEC-715) commissioned in 1967. Highly versatile and capable of performing a variety of missions, these cutters operate throughout the world's oceans.

Length: 87 ft
Beam: 9 ft 5 in
Power plant: 2 Diesel engines
Commissioned: 1998-present