Circle Line Boat: XVI

XVI started out as USCGC Nike, a Coast Guard cutter named after the Greek goddess of victory, commissioned on October 24, 1934. Around 1941, Nike was one of three cutters rushed to help form the initial defense of Key West, Florida, alongside sister cutters Nemesis and Vigilant, 19 unarmed Coast Guard planes, and fourteen lightly armed Army planes. She spent most of World War II on patrol and rescue duty around Key West, picking up stragglers and survivors.

Nike was decommissioned on December 5, 1964, and sold to Circle Line in May 1966, where she was renamed Circle Line XVI.