On September 1, the exclusive flagging of three Marine Protector-class vessels was decommissioned by the U.S. Coast Guard and transferred to the Uruguayan Navy at the U.S. Coast Guard shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland.
These ships, the first of the class to be transferred to another country after decommissioning - except for some originally built for Malta and Yemen - are modern, highly efficient units and remain the backbone of the U.S. Coast and Harbor Patrol.
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