High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC 722), commissioned on March 10, 1969, was the eighth of twelve 378-foot Hamilton-class high endurance cutters (WHECs) built by Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana. First homeported at Governors Island, New York, Morgenthau was active in the Vietnam War, conducting underway replenishment, naval gunfire support, and patrol duties off the coast of Vietnam until relieved by a 311` cutter in 1971. Her current motto, translated from latin, is "Pride of the Pacific."Morgenthau is currently homeported at Integrated Support Command Alameda, Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California.