USCGC Mendota

USCGC Mendota (WHEC-69) was an Owasco-class high endurance cutter of the United States Coast Guard, commissioned in 1946. Initially designed for anti-submarine warfare during World War II, her service began too late to see action in the conflict. Throughout her career, Mendota performed a variety of missions including search and rescue, law enforcement, and ocean station duties in the Atlantic Ocean. She was decommissioned in 1971, marking nearly 25 years of peacetime and Cold War maritime service.