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USCGC High Point (WMEC 1)
ex-USS High Point (PCH 1)

High Point served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.
High Point Class Patrol Craft Hydrofoil: Laid down, 27 February 1961 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, WA, and the Boeing Co., Seattle, WA; Launched, 17 August 1962; Commissioned USS High Point (PCH 1), 15 August 1963; Decommissioned in March 1975; Transferred to the Coast Guard, 4 April 1975 and commissioned USCGC High Point (WMEH 1); Decommissioned, 5 May 1975 and returned to U.S. Navy custody; Struck from the Navy Registry in 1980; Sold in February 2002 to Bob Phillips of Skamokawa, WA; Currently moored at Tongue Point, WA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 110 t; Length 115'; Beam 22'; Depth 17' (with foils down); Speed 30+kts. (maximum 48 kts.); Complement unknown; Armamant one 40mm; Propulsion two General Motors 12V71 diesel engines and two LM2500 gas turbines, two shafts.

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USS High Point (PCH 1)
PCH-1 123k U.S. Navy photo -
PCH-1 32k U.S. Navy photo -
PCH-1 105k U.S. Navy photo -
PCH-1 70k . Robert Hurst
PCH-1 98k High Point (foregroung) and the experimental hydrofoil Plainview (AGEH 1)
U.S. Navy photo		 Robert Hurst
PCH-1 115k U.S. Navy photo from the June 1964 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
PCH-1 136k U.S. Navy photo from the July 1968 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
PCH-1 49k U.S. Navy photo from the April 1977 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
USCGC High Point (WMEC 1)
WMEH-1 87k WMEH-1 during Coast Guard evaluations.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo		 U.S. Coast Guard
Washington DC
WMEH-1 44k WMEH-1 during Coast Guard evaluations.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo		 U.S. Coast Guard
Washington DC
WMEH-1 121k WMEH-1 during Coast Guard evaluations.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo		 U.S. Coast Guard
Washington DC
WMEH-1 88k U.S. Coast Guard Photo U.S. Coast Guard
Washington DC
WMEH-1 130k The High Point's "Bridge."
U.S. Coast Guard Photo		 U.S. Coast Guard
Washington DC
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