Welcome to the Old United States Coast Guard Cutter Alert WSC-127. 
       - Launched November 30, 1926 - 
    Prohibition enforcement 1927-1931 - Bering Sea Patrol 1931-1940
    1942-1945 assigned to the United States Navy as a sub-chaser.
 - Decomissioned from USCG January 10, 1969 -
The Alert is the oldest operational, engine-driven, ex-United States     military combat ship in the world.