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USS Flagstaff (PGH-1)
USS ''Flagstaff'' (PGH-1) was the only ''Flagstaff''-class patrol gunboat (hydrofoil) and was acquired by the United States Navy because of her relatively low cost and very high speed. She was later loaned by the Navy to the U.S. Coast Guard, as USCGC ''Flagstaff'' (WPBH-1). The Coast Guard’s interest in the craft was the craft’s speed and its ability to interdict smugglers and other suspicious craft approaching the U.S. coast.
==History of evaluation of high speed craft==
In the mid-1970s, the Coast Guard explored options to replace the aging cutters. There was also considerable interest in developing new "high-speed ways" to combat narcotics smuggling by sea, conduct search and rescue operations, fisheries enforcement, and marine environmental protection. The Coast Guard, of course, looked for the most inexpensive way to test new platforms and when the Navy offered the use of some of their hydrofoils at "virtually no cost", the Coast Guard jumped on the opportunity. The Navy loaned the Coast Guard both USS ''Flagstaff'' (PGH-1) and for a short period of time beginning in late 1974. ''Flagstaff'' was scheduled for evaluation first and ''High Point'' was scheduled for evaluation in early 1975. While under Coast Guard ownership, ''Flagstaff'' was armed only with small arms.
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