USCGC ''Halibut'' is a United States Coast Guard Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat based in Marina del Rey, California. Her patrol area is the from Morro Bay to Dana Point, California, and several important offshore islands. Like her

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s, ''Halibut'' was built at the

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, in Lockport, Louisiana. Commissioned on April 26, 2002, she replaced the Point-class cutter . She was commissioned on 26 April 2002. In the early morning of 2 December 2012, ''Halibut'' encountered a suspicious vessel and dispatched her pursuit boat to investigate. The crew of the pursuit boat hailed the vessel and attempted to board her for an inspection, upon which the suspicious vessel rammed ''Halibut''′s boat. Senior Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne, ''Halibut''s executive petty officer, was credited with heroically pushing a colleague to safety at the cost of his own life. In October 2016, ''Halibut'' joined the Coast Guard patrol boat in supporting operations by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) personnel aboard the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary′s research vessel R/V ''Shearwater'' who used a VideoRay Mission Specialist remotely operated vehicle to find and identify the wreck of the Coast Guard cutter , which sank in the Pacific Ocean 3

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s (5.5 km) off Point Conception, California, on 13 June 1917 after colliding with the passenger steamer ''Governor''.sanctuaries.noaa.gov U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ''McCulloch'' Factsheet
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