USCGC Vigilant (WPC-154) was an Active-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard.
She was 125-foot, steel-hulled, twin-screw, diesel-powered cutter primarily outfitted for Aids to Navigation work.
The crew was exonerated on 31 January of blame by a Coast Guard board of inquiry in the death of the captain of the Josephine K, who was mortally wounded by a one-pound shot during the chase.
[1] WPC-154 was involved in the rescue of survivors of several U-boat attacks off central Florida in the 1940s.
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