interdicted two "go-fast" boats working in tandem with 2 tons of cocaine using disabling shots with an MH-68 "Stingray" HITRON. As of September 4, 2007, Munro was home-ported in Kodiak, Alaska. On March 23, 2008, Munro rescued survivors of FV Alaska Ranger when it sank west of Dutch Harbor. Munro deployed its HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to the sinking site, and received 20 of the surviving fishermen. The story of this rescue is detailed in Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson. As Aviation Week & Space Technology states, "The USCG deems the operation the largest cold-water rescue in its history." Munro was renamed to Douglas Munro to allow the new Legend-class cutter Munro, launched in 2015, to assume the former name of the Hamilton-class cutter. Douglas Munro also made an appearance in an episode of the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch, conducting search and rescue operations following the loss of the fishing vessel Ocean Challenger. It was also featured in the BBC series Full Circle with Michael Palin in 1997, as the presenter was on the ship at the end of his documentary circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. Douglas Munro completed its final deployment on March 13, 2021. It was decommissioned on April 24, 2021 in a decommissioning ceremony held at Coast Guard Base Kodiak in Kodiak, Alaska. Sri Lanka Navy Following its decommission, she was transferred to the Sri Lanka Navy on 26 October 2021 at the USCG Station Seattle, where it was assigned the pennant number P 627. She becomes the second Hamilton-class cutter to be transferred to the Sri Lanka Navy after USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720). She will undergo an extensive refit at Seattle before sailing home in 2022. After refit she sailed new home to Sri Lanka having covered a long sea voyage of about 10656 nautical miles (19734km) transiting the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the ship finally arrived in Colombo on 02nd November 2022. Ship commissioned 22nd November 2022 as SLNS Vijayabahu. References External links USCGC Douglas Munro official website Ships of the United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutters 1971 ships Ships built in Bridge City, Louisiana Hamilton-class cutters of the Sri Lanka Navy