USCGC Sanibel

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Contributor PO3Smith put together this awesome aerial video of a US Coast Guard cutter cruising the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts.  The Sanibel is an Island class patrol boat.  These 30+ meter (110 ft) ships displace about 170 tons and are on the smaller end of the Coast Guard's fleet; they are used primarily for near-shore operations such as drug interdiction.  There are about three dozen still active as of 2019.  The video shows the Sanibel passing by a much larger barge, giving you a sense of relative sizes.   

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