USCGC Diligence (WMEC-616)

USCGC Diligence (WMEC-616) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter.

Diligence moors up in downtown Wilmington and is the 6th US Coast Guard Cutter to bear that name and be homeported in Wilmington, North Carolina, one of only fourteen cities in the country with the designation of "A Coast Guard City". Diligence is capable of performing any of the missions that white-hulled Coast Guard Cutters traditionally perform; ranging from alien migrant interdiction operations (AMIO) and drug interdiction missions down in the Caribbean, or fisheries protection of the Atlantic seaboard, or search and rescue anywhere in between. Diligence has a history of being crewed by some of the best officers in the Coast Guard.