Urgent repairs to the High Endurance Cutters USCGC Dallas and USCGC Gallatin will keep them out of US Coast Guard (USCG) service for months and impact heavily on operations off the country's Atlantic seaboard, a senior officer has told Jane's.rnInspections of the 3,300-ton ships, which are now over 40 years old, started with Gallatin in August 2008 and uncovered severe structural, mechanical and ventilation problems.rnWhen Dallas returned from a deployment to the Mediterranean and Black Sea in October, further inspections prompted the withrawal of both vessels from duty.rnCommissioned in the late 1960s and homeported in Charleston, South Carolina, the cutters are the only unitsrnof the 12-strong Hamilton and Hero classes to be based on the United States' eastern seaboard.
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