28 January 2021
US Coast Guard cutter arrives in South Atlantic for rare deployment
by Alejandro Sanchez
For the first time in more than a decade, a US Coast Guard (USCG) cutter has been deployed to the South Atlantic, with the recently commissioned Legend-class USCG Stone (WMSL 758) reaching Uruguayan waters on 25 January, tasked to help US partners in the South Atlantic combat illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing.
This is the USCG’s first cutter deployment to the South Atlantic since 2010 when the Famous-class cutter Spencer (WMEC 95) visited Montevideo, a Coast Guard spokesperson told Janes.
USCG platforms have participated in the annual multinational exercise UNITAS in recent years – the cutter
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