The US Coast Guard decommissioned the Island-class cutter USCGC Mustang during a ceremony in Seward, Alaska, on Tuesday, April 15.
Commissioned on August 29, 1986, Mustang was the 10th Island-class cutter to join the coast guard fleet.
The cutter has been stationed in Seward since it was commissioned, and its crews have since responded to over 200 search and rescue cases and completed over 2,000 law enforcement sorties.
Mustang is a 110-foot (34-metre) multi-mission platform that conducted operations to support search and rescue response, marine environmental protection, and national defence.
The coast guard is replacing the aging Island-class patrol boats with the Sentinel-class fast response cutters (FRCs), which feature enhanced capability to meet service needs.
There are currently four FRCs homeported in Alaska, with two more scheduled for delivery in the near future.
A number of decommissioned Island-class patrol boats have been transferred to other operators including the Ukrainian Navy, the Hellenic Navy, and environmental extremist organisation Sea Shepherd.
Potential operators of the Island-class boats meanwhile include the Philippine Navy, which is slated to receive two examples in the near future.