USCGC Chase (WHEC-718) was a Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard. She was laid down on October 26, 1966, at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, launched on May 20, 1967, and commissioned on March 11, 1968. Chase is the fourth of twelve Hamilton class, 378-foot (115 m) cutters, and the third cutter named in honour of Salmon Portland Chase. She was decommissioned on March 29, 2011, and transferred to the Nigerian Navy as an excess defence article under the Foreign Assistance Act as NNS Thunder (F90).
📑 ➖➖➖ In 2011, Chase was decommissioned and donated to the Nigerian Navy, which commissioned her as a frigate, NNS Thunder. Thunder was commissioned into Nigerian service on January 23, 2012.
In March 2012, Thunder collided with a vessel owned by Total S.A. on the Bonny River.
Thunder was the sole vessel from Africa at the 2013 International Fleet Review in Sydney. It was her longest voyage.
NNS Thunder is confirmed to be operational due to its recent patrol of Nigerian waters early 2019 after being grounded since 2016 due to failure of its critical components and machinery.

▪️🛠🇺🇸 Builder: Avondale Shipyards
▪🔃 Displacement: 3,250 tons
▪️↔️ Length: 378 ft (115.2 m)
▪️➗ Beam: 43 ft (13.1 m)
▪️⤵️ Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)
▪️⚙️ Propulsion: Two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines
▪️⏩ Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h)
▪️🛢 Range: 14,000 mi (23,000 km)
▪️⚡️ Endurance: 45 days
▪️👥 Complement: 167 personnel
▪️📡 Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-40 air-search radar
▪️⚔️ Armament: Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS