USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC 722), commissioned on March 10, 1969, was the eighth of twelve 378-foot turbine/diesel powered Hamilton-class high endurance cutters (WHECs) built by Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ship was homeported at Governors Island, New York. In 1977, Morgenthau became the first cutter to have women permanently assigned, followed shortly thereafter by .[citation needed] Her Pacific coast activities have included drug interdiction and seizures, foreign and domestic fisheries enforcement, search and rescue, and alien migrant interdiction.