United States Coast Guard Service
The U.S. Navy loaned Bering Strait to the United States Coast Guard on 14 September 1948, and struck from the Navy List and transferred her permanently to the Coast Guard on 26 September 1966. Commissioned in 1949 as USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382) and reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-382 in 1966, she served as a Coast Guard cutter until the beginning of 1971. For nearly 22 years, she patrolled ocean stations in the Pacific Ocean, first based at Seattle, Washington, and, later, at Honolulu, Hawaii, reporting weather data and engaging in search-and-rescue and law-enforcement operations. During the Vietnam War, Bering Strait participated in Operation Market Time coastal surveillance operations off Vietnam, serving two tours (in 1967-1968 and in 1970).
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