USCGC Munro (WHEC-724)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) is a High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919 1942), the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. The vessel is currently commanded by MATT R. BELL (AUG 2009 Present), and as of September 4, 2007 is stationed in Kodiak, Alaska. Munro was commissioned on September 27, 1971, at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tenth of twelve 378-foot (115 m) cutters, she was the first to be named after a Coast Guard hero. The previously commissioned 378-footers had been named for former secretaries of the Treasury, a tradition that began in 1830 when a cutter was named for Alexander Hamilton.... Mehr