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Below are pictures submitted by crew members of the nine 82 foot Coast Guard cutters and the support staff of USCG Squadron One Division-13 Cat Lo Vietnam in 1966. Click on one and view some great pictures. There were eleven men on each cutter and a great support staff that kept the cutters running. Go to LIFE ON AN 82 FOOT CUTTER to see what life was like on one of these 82 foot cutters in Vietnam. All the 82 foot cutters have been replaced by new 87 foot cutters. It is a real shame one 82 foot cutter was not save and restored. The twenty six 82 foot cutters of Squadron One, the men who manned them and the Support Staff who kept them running wrote a unique and huge chapter in Coast Guard history.
All 82 foot U.S. Coast Guard Cutters were named after a point of land somewhere in the USA. The first two hull numbers of any Coast Guard cutter under 95 feet would designate its length, example the Point White's hull number on the bow was 82308 meaning it was 82 feet long.
The Coast Guard has no ships all their vessels are called cutters a tradition carried over from 1790 when the Revenue Cutter Service was formed and their vessels were called cutters. In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service became today's U.S. Coast Guard. Enjoy the pictures and send the webmaster any pictures, articles or stories that you have.

POINT CYPRESS	POINT GRACE	POINT HUDSON
POINT JEFFERSON	POINT KENNEDY	POINT LEAGUE
POINT PARTRIDGE	POINT SLOCUM	POINT WHITE
RELIEF CREW	SUPPORT STAFF