ALAMEDA, Calif., May 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its second Legend-class National Security Cutter Waesche (WMSL-751) on Coast Guard Island in San Francisco Bay.
Construction on the Waesche, named after Adm. Russell Waesche who led the Coast Guard for 10 years, began in 2006 at Northrop Grumman's Mississippi shipbuilding facility.
The Wasche's commissioning follows the delivery of the vessel to its home port at Coast Guard Island at the end of February.
The 418-foot Waesche is the second of eight Legend-class National Security Cutters ships designed with the latest in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities from defense company Lockheed Martin.
"When you see the Coast Guard bring (National Security Cutter) Waesche to life, for us it represents the culmination of years of hard work by thousands of shipbuilders," Irwin Edenzon, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Gulf Coast vice president and general manager, said in a statement.
