USCGC SHERMAN

USCGC SHERMAN (WHEC-720) was a high endurance cutter of the United States Coast Guard, commissioned in 1968. The Sherman served with distinction in the Vietnam War, conducting naval gunfire support and interdiction missions. Over her decades of service, she participated in numerous drug interdiction operations, migrant rescues, and fisheries enforcement patrols. The cutter was decommissioned in 2018 and later transferred to the Sri Lanka Navy, where she was recommissioned as SLNS Gajabahu.