USCGC Hickory
United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender
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The USCGC Hickory (WLB-212) is a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender, home-ported at Apra Harbor, Guam. The Hickory serves multiple missions, including aids to navigation, search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, marine environmental protection and homeland security.[1]
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Commissioned2003
Home portSanta Rita, Guam
Identification
- IMO number: 9259965
- MMSI number: 369916000
- Callsign: NAZJ
Nickname(s)Bull of the Pacific (previously Bull of the North)
USCGC Hickory (WLB-212) | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Commissioned | 2003 |
| Home port | Santa Rita, Guam |
| Identification |
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| Nickname(s) | Bull of the Pacific (previously Bull of the North) |
| Status | in active service |
| Badge | _Crest.png) |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 2,000 long tons (2,000 t) full load |
| Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement |
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| Armament | 2 x .50 caliber machine guns |
The Hickory was away from Guam for an extensive and lengthy modernization at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland. It returned on 14 January 2026.[2]
The Hickory was previously known as "The Kenai Keeper" and "Bull of the North" when its home port was Homer, Alaska, before assuming its current moniker "Bull of the Pacific"[1]
