KITTERY, Maine (AP) The Coast Guard Cutter Reliance is leaving Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for the last time.
The 210-foot Reliance, which has spent 32 years in Maine and New Hampshire, was departing on patrol Monday.
The ship will then continue next month to its new home at a Navy base in Pensacola, Florida.
Commissioned in 1964, the cutter has a long history in New England.
In 1989, the Reliance served as on-scene commander for Narragansett Bay Oil Spill and directed the cleanup of over 300,000 gallons of crude.
In 1991, its crew served as tactical command for the interdiction of a fishing vessel south of Long Island that was smuggling over 5 tons of cocaine.
