She was built as a Coast Guard Cutter by Bolinger Shipyard, Lockport, Louisiana, for the U.S. Coastguard.
25 April 1989 keel laid down.
10 November 1989 launched under the name ASSATEAGUE (WPB-1337), named after Assateague Island, a barrier island spanning the coast of Maryland and Virginia, and home of wild horses and countless other wildlife in the Assateague National Wildlife Refuge and Seashore.
Displacement 154 tons full load. Dim. 110 x 21 x 7.1ft.
Powered by two 10 ton weighing turbo charging Paxman diesels engines 2.880bhp each, twin screws, speed in excess of 30 knots.
Armament 1 – 25mm., 2 – 50-caliber MG, as well a full compliment of Coast Guard small arms.
Fitted out with a small boat 6-meter inflatable boat, powered by a 60hp. outboard motor.
Crew 18 men.
15 June 1990 commissioned.
She belongs to the Island class and are used for Search and Rescue, Maritime Law Enforcement and National Defense Missions. Of this class 49 has built and she was the 37th of this class.
She is stationed at the Marshall Islands.
During 1977 and 1998 conducted two deployments to the Palmyra/Kinman Reef, Jarvis Island and Johnston Atoll exclusive economic zones. She traveled to the Tarawa Atoll and Canton Island to conduct a professional exchange with the Republic of Kiribati.
Each of the patrols were in excess of 2.500-mile roundtrip. Search and rescue cases involving eight different vessels resulted in ASSATEAGUE assisting 36 mariners in distress and saving over $1 million in property.
ASSATEAGUE successfully intercepted, boarded and cited two fishing vessels for illegally long-line fishing within the Main Hawaiian Island Long-Line Closure Area and Hawaiian Island Protected Species Zone, and also stopped five vessels from illegally fishing in Hawaiian state bottom fish closure areas and the Kahoolawe Island Reserve.
2003 During the summer, ASSATEAGUE sailed over 12.000 miles, deploying to Guam to conduct Alien Migration Interdiction Operations. During the trip the ASSATEAGUE also visited Johnston, Kwajalien and Ant Atolls, Wake Island, Saipan and Rota in the Northern Marianas Islands and Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
Search and rescue cases involving seven different vessels resulted in ASSATEAGUE assisting 36 mariners in distress.
2007 Still based at Apra Harbor, Guam.
Marshall Islands 1995 32c and 60c sg 502 and 687, scott 458 and 605s
Source: http://www.uscg.mil/d14/units/assateague.htm