USCGC SPENCER arrives for SLEP Published July 19, 2023 at 750 × 400 in “Coast Guard begins production phase of medium endurance cutter service life extension program” –CG-9 Coast Guard Cutter Spencer approaches the pier at Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore. Spencer was scheduled to spend fifteen months in SLEP but in the event spent twenty months, leaving the Coast Guard Yard on March 8, 2025 U.S. Coast Guard photo.