Sister ship USCGC Cape Newagen
History
United States
Name	USCGC Cape Fox
Operator	United States Coast Guard
Builder	Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Baltimore
Commissioned	22 August 1955
Decommissioned	30 June 1989
Identification	WPB-95316
Fate	Transferred to the Bahamas, 30 June 1989
Bahamas
Name	HMBS San Salvador II
Operator	Royal Bahamas Defence Force
Acquired	30 June 1989
Stricken	1999
Identification	P10
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Cape-class cutter
Displacement	105 long tons (107 t) full load
Length	95 ft (29 m) o/a 90 ft (27 m) w/l
Beam	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Propulsion	As built: 4 × Cummins VT-600 diesel engines, 2,200 shp (1,641 kW) After refit: 2 × Detroit 16V149 diesels, 2,470 shp (1,842 kW)
Speed	As built: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) After refit: 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Complement	15
Sensors and processing systems	SPS-64 navigation radar
Armament	As built: 2 × Mousetrap ASW 2 × Depth charge racks 1 × 40 mm gun 2 × .50 caliber machine guns Added 1987: 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns 2 × 40 mm Mk 64 grenade launchers

USCGC Cape Fox (WPB-95316) was a Type B Cape-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. Built at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Baltimore the vessel was commissioned on August 22, 1955.

Service history

The ship was stationed at New London, Connecticut, until transferred to Riviera Beach, Florida, in 1964. After a major refit in 1980-82, she replaced the Cape York in late 1981 after the Cuban Boatlift in Key West, Florida, apart from the period between December 1983 to February 1984, when she conducted surveillance operations from St. George's, Grenada. The principal duties of Cape Fox were search and rescue and law enforcement operations; she was credited with numerous seizures of shipments of illegal drugs.^[1]

The ship was decommissioned on June 30, 1989, and transferred to The Bahamas,^[1] where she served in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force under the name HMBS San Salvador II (P10) until 1999.^[2]

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