USCGC Alder (WLB-216)

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Template:Sister project USCGC Alder (WLB-216) is the final Juniper-class, Script error: No such module "convert". seagoing buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard.

Alder was built by Marinette Marine Corporation and launched on February 7, 2004. AlderTemplate:'s maiden voyage was on September 12, 2004. From commissioning until August 2022, Alder was assigned to Duluth, Minnesota as its home port. Alder replaced the previous cutter stationed in Duluth, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., which retired after 60 years of service.

In the summer of 2021, Alder was temporarily relocated to Baltimore, Maryland for a yearlong maintenance period. In August 2022, she was reassigned to the San Francisco Bay area. Her duties in the Twin Ports of Duluth/Superior were taken over by her sister tender Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..

Alder is designed as a multi-mission vessel, with its missions being Aids to Navigation, Icebreaking, Search and Rescue, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Marine Environmental Protection.

History

2010s

Operation Nanook 2010

In August 2010 the guided missile destroyer Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and USCGC Alder participated in Operation Nanook 2010 in Baffin Bay and the Davis Straits.[1] This was the fourth annual Operation Nanook organized by the Canadian Government, but it was the first to host foreign vessels.

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