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Storied Coast Guard Ship Retires After 50 Years of Service
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser 2 Apr 2018 By William Cole

The 50-year-old cutter Sherman, the Coast Guard's last active warship to have sunk an enemy vessel in combat, was decommissioned in Honolulu on Thursday.

The 378-foot cutter was in service during the Vietnam War in November 1970 when it intercepted and assisted other U.S. ships in sinking a North Vietnamese supply trawler that was hailed to stop but resisted, according to the Coast Guard.

Some 37 years later, in 2007, a boarding team from the Sherman found 17 metric tons of cocaine worth $600 million on a Panamanian-flagged freighter, the Coast Guard said.

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