Patrol boat transferred to Vietnam Coastguard

The U.S. Coast Guard transferred the former Coast Guard Cutter "Morgenthau" to the Vietnam Coastguard during a ceremony in Honolulu on May 26, 2017. The ship, which will be renamed "CSB 8020", is expected to improve the Vietnam coast guard’s maritime domain awareness, increase its capacity to perform maritime law enforcement operations, and conduct search and rescue and other humanitarian response operations. The "CSB 8020" was transferred to the Vietnam coast guard from the U.S. Government through the Excess Defense Articles program. The EDA offers excess military equipment to U.S. partner and allied countries in support of their military and security modernization efforts.