# USCGC Resolute

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For ships with a similar name, see [USS Resolute](/source/USS_Resolute).

**USCGC *Resolute* (WMEC-620)** is a [United States Coast Guard](/source/United_States_Coast_Guard) [medium endurance cutter](/source/Medium_Endurance_Cutter).

## History

The Coast Guard's first cutter *Resolute* was a top-sail schooner built and commissioned in 1867. This first *Resolute* was homeported in [Key West, Florida](/source/Key_West,_Florida), and took on the missions of smuggling interdiction as well as search and rescue.[1]

The current cutter *Resolute* is very different in size and construction but the missions remain the same. The sixth of sixteen [*Reliance*-class cutters](/source/Reliance-class_cutter), *Resolute* was the first of her class to be powered by two 2,500 horsepower (1,900 kW) Alco-B diesel engines. *Resolute'*s keel was laid at the [United States Coast Guard Yard](/source/United_States_Coast_Guard_Yard), [Curtis Bay, Maryland](/source/Curtis_Bay,_Maryland), in May 1965. She was commissioned 8 December 1966. Since that time she has seen several different homeports including [San Francisco, California](/source/San_Francisco,_California); [Alameda, California](/source/Alameda,_California); [Astoria, Oregon](/source/Astoria,_Oregon); and her current home port of [St. Petersburg, Florida](/source/St._Petersburg,_Florida).[1]

*Resolute* has been decorated on several occasions. She has done well during Refresher Training (REFTRA), earning eight REFTRA "E's" for overall excellence in simulated battle and damage scenarios. *Resolute* has earned two [Coast Guard Unit Commendation](/source/Coast_Guard_Unit_Commendation) awards for exceptional work in separate Search and Rescue (SAR) cases. In 1981, *Resolute* extinguished a fire aboard the tug *DeFelice* alongside a San Francisco fuel pier. Two *Resolute* crewmembers entered the burning tug and retrieved her injured occupants. Several of *Resolute'*s crew were injured during this operation while they fought desperately to save the vessel and crew. In 1982, *Resolute* earned a [Meritorious Unit Commendation](/source/Meritorious_Unit_Commendation) for protecting an [*Ohio*-class submarine](/source/Ohio-class_submarine) from potentially dangerous demonstrators. In 1986, after successfully completing hundreds of SAR cases and fisheries boardings, *Resolute* saw her first drug bust. The seizure of MV *Pamnico* and the arrest of the vessel's crew resulted in the interdiction of over 20,000 lb (9,100 kg) of marijuana headed for the streets of the United States.[1]

*Resolute* exercised her multi-mission capabilities during her tour of duty in [Astoria, Oregon](/source/Astoria,_Oregon). On numerous occasions, *Resolute* was called to assist vessels in distress. Environmental protection was *Resolute'*s primary calling when she was tasked with patrolling US fishery protection zones. *Resolute* also responded to assist in the cleanup of the [Exxon Valdez oil spill](/source/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill) disaster in Alaska.[1]

*Resolute* was decommissioned at the [United States Coast Guard Yard](/source/United_States_Coast_Guard_Yard) in 1994 for a major refurbishment. Following this yard period, she was recommissioned and homeported in St. Petersburg, FL, where she continues to meet diverse challenges off the Southeast United States and in the Caribbean Sea.

*Resolute* escorted the 500-foot (150-metre) MV *Yalta* from the Windward Passage to the Port of [Tampa, Florida](/source/Tampa,_Florida) from 27 June – 1 July 2003. Members of *Resolute'*s boarding team and Rescue and Assistance detail were directly responsible for the salvage, safe navigation, operation and security of *Yalta*, her crew, and over 4 tons of cocaine during the transit. From 5 – 25 July 2003, *Resolute* participated in TACT (Tailored Annual Cutter Training). The training included such activities as man overboard, anchoring, towing, swept channel, general emergency, collision, gun shoot and general quarters drills. For participation and successful completion of all drills *Resolute* won the Battle E Ribbon from United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area (LANTAREA), her second award in two years.[1]

## Deepwater Horizon Response

*Resolute* was part of the flotilla used to respond to the [Deepwater Horizon oil spill](/source/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill) in the [Gulf of Mexico](/source/Gulf_of_Mexico). The United States Government billed [BP](/source/BP) $19,000 per hour for the ship's presence.[2]

## In fiction

*Resolute* appears in the second chapter of the [Dale Brown](/source/Dale_Brown) novel *Hammerheads* where, fictitiously up-armed with (1 × [OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun](/source/Otobreda_76_mm), as well as her normal complement of 6 × [.50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns](/source/M2_Browning_machine_gun)),[3] the ship becomes involved in a gun-battle with a heavily armed freighter used by a Colombian cartel to smuggle cocaine into the United States.

## References

1. ["History of USCGC Resolute (WMEC 620)"](https://www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil/Area-Cutters/CGCRESOLUTE/History/). *United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Department of Homeland Security*. Defense Media Activity. Retrieved 2022-11-10.

1. Langley, Monica (21 July 2010). ["U.S. Drills Deep Into BP as Spill Drama Drags On"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704720004575377110647505300). *[Wall Street Journal](/source/Wall_Street_Journal)*. Retrieved 2012-12-11.

1. ["Reliance Class 210-Foot Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)"](http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/wmec-210.htm). globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2012-12-11.

## External links

- [*Resolute* home page](https://www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil/Area-Cutters/CGCRESOLUTE/)

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