Sentinel-class cutter

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Sentinel-class cutter
File:USCG Sentinel class cutter poster.pdf
The first Fast Response Cutter, Bernard C. Webber, gets underway.
Class overview
Operators: United States Coast Guard
Planned: 58
Active: 12
General characteristics
Displacement: 353 long tons
Length: 46.8 m (154 ft)
Beam: 8.11 m (26.6 ft)
Depth: 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 4,300 kilowatts (5,800 shp)
  • 1 × 75 kilowatts (101 shp) bow thruster
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance:
  • 5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
  • Designed to be on patrol 2,500 hours per year
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 1 × Over the horizon - Jet
Complement: 2 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:		 L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament:

The Sentinel-class cutter, previously known as the Fast Response Cutter, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program.[1][2][3] At 46.8 metres (154 ft) it is similar to, but larger than the 123-foot (37 m) extended Island-class patrol boat, like the USCGC Matagorda (WPB-1303). 24 to 58 vessels are to be built by the Louisiana based firm Bollinger Shipyards, using a design from the Netherlands-based Damen Group, with the Sentinel design based on the company's Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel.

Planning and acquisition

On March 14, 2007, Commandant Thad Allen announced that they had withdrawn from a contract for the construction of the vessels, but had not entirely cancelled the program.[4][5] The new program would focus more on "off-the-shelf" technology.

Plan of the proposed Sentinel-class cutters - modified from the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessels.

On September 26, 2008, Bollinger Shipyards was awarded US$88 million to build a prototype.[6] The cutter will be the first of a series of 24-34 43 metres (141 ft) cutters built to a design largely based on the Stan 4708 patrol vessels from the Netherlands firm the Damen Group.[7] The South African government employs similar vessels for environmental and fishery patrol.[8] The first cutter, the USCGC Bernard C. Webber (WPC-1101), and all future Sentinel class will be named after enlisted Coast Guard heroes.[9] The Bernard C. Webber, and five sister ships, are stationed in Miami. Bernard C. Webber was launched on Thursday, April 21, 2011, and commissioned on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the Port of Miami.[10] The second cohort of six vessels is homeported in Key West, Florida, while the third cohort of six vessels is homeported in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[11]

On September 26, 2013 Marine Link reported that the Coast Guard had placed orders for additional cutters, bringing the number of cutters ordered so far to thirty.[12]

Design and construction

The vessels are armed with a remote-control 25 mm Bushmaster autocannon and four, crew-served M2HB .50-caliber machine guns. They have a bow thruster for maneuvering in crowded anchorages and channels. They also have small underwater fins, for coping with the rolling and pitching caused by large waves. They are equipped with a stern launching ramp, like the Marine Protector-class and the eight failed expanded Island-class cutters. They are manned by a crew of 22. Like the Marine Protector class, and the cancelled extended Island-class cutters, the Fast Response Cutter would deploy the Short Range Prosecutor Rigid-hulled inflatable (SRP or RHIB) for rescues and interceptions.[13] According to Marine Log, modifications to the Coast Guard vessels from the Stan 4708 design include an increase in speed from 23 to 28 knots (43 to 52 km/h; 26 to 32 mph), fixed-pitch rather than variable-pitch propellers, stern launch capability, and watertight bulkheads.[14]

On February 7, 2013, the Department of Homeland Security requested tenders from third party firms to independently inspect the cutters, during their construction, and their performance trials.[15]

Ships

On October 27, 2010, the Coast Guard released the names of the first 14 Coast Guard enlisted heroes for whom the Sentinel-class FRCs will be named.[16][17] [18]

Sentinel-class cutters
 Name   Number   Builder   Launched   Commissioned   Home port   Status 
Bernard C. Webber WPC-1101 Bollinger Shipyards 2011-04-21 2012-04-14 Miami, FL in active service
Richard Etheridge WPC-1102 Bollinger Shipyards 2011-08-19 2012-08-03 Miami, FL in active service[19]
William Flores WPC-1103 Bollinger Shipyards 2011-11-10 2012-11-03 Miami, FL in active service[20]
Robert Yered WPC-1104 Bollinger Shipyards 2012-11-23 2013-02-17 Miami, FL in active service[21][22]
Margaret Norvell WPC-1105 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-01 2013-06-01 Miami, FL in active service[23][24][25][26]
Paul Clark WPC-1106 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-05-18 2013-08-24 Miami, FL in active service[27]
Charles David WPC-1107 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-08-20 2013-11-16 Key West, FL[28] in active service[29][23][24][30][31][32][33]
Charles W. Sexton WPC-1108 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-12-10 2014-03-08 Key West, FL in active service[23][24][34][35]
Kathleen Moore WPC-1109 Bollinger Shipyards 2014-03-28 Key West, FL commissioned[36]
Raymond Evans[37] WPC-1110 Bollinger Shipyards 2014-06-25 2014-09-06 Key West, FL commissioned[23][24][38][39][40][41]
William Trump WPC-1111 Bollinger Shipyards 2014-11-25 Key West, FL commissioned[23][24][42][43][44][45]
Isaac Mayo WPC-1112 Bollinger Shipyards Key West, FL delivered[23][24]
Richard Dixon WPC-1113 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-04-15 2015-07 Puerto Rico commissioned[23][46][11]
Heriberto Hernandez WPC-1114 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-07-30 2015-10-16 Puerto Rico Commissioned[47][48][11]
Joseph Napier WPC-1115 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-10-20 2016-01 Puerto Rico delivered[49][50][11]
Winslow W. Griesser WPC-1116 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-12-28 Puerto Rico delivered[49][11]
Richard H. Patterson WPC-1117 Bollinger Shipyards Puerto Rico [49]
Joseph Tezanos WPC-1118 Bollinger Shipyards Puerto Rico [49]
Rollin A. Fritch WPC-1119 Bollinger Shipyards Cape May, NJ [49]
Lawrence O. Lawson WPC-1120 Bollinger Shipyards [49]
John F. McCormick WPC-1121 Bollinger Shipyards [49]
Bailey T. Barco WPC-1122 Bollinger Shipyards [49]
Benjamin B. Dailey WPC-1123 Bollinger Shipyards [49]
Donald H. Horsley WPC-1124 Bollinger Shipyards [49]
Jacob L. A. Poroo WPC-1125 Bollinger Shipyards [49] [49]

Namesakes

Charles "Skip" W. Bowen, who was then the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, is credited with leading the initiative of naming the vessels after enlisted rank individuals who served heroically in the Coast Guard, or one of its precursor services.[51] Originally the first vessel of the class was to be named the USCGC Sentinel.[52]

In October 2010 the Coast Guard named the first fourteen individuals the vessel will be named after, and has provided biographies of them.[53] They are: Bernard C. Webber, Richard Etheridge, William Flores, Robert Yered, Margaret Norvell, Paul Clark, Charles David, Charles Sexton, Kathleen Moore, Joseph Napier, William Trump, Isaac Mayo, Richard Dixon, Heriberto Hernandez. A second group of eleven names was announced on April 2, 2014.[49] In 2013 the name of Joseph Napier was reassigned to WPC-1115 when WPC-1110 was named after the recently deceased Commander Raymond Evans. The other ten new namesakes were: Winslow W. Griesser, Richard H. Patterson, Joseph Tezanos, Rollin A. Fritch, Lawrence O. Lawson, John F. McCormick, Bailey T. Barco, Benjamin B. Dailey, Donald H. Horsley, and Jacob L. A. Poroo.

On July 30, 2014, Coast Guard Commandant, Paul Zukunft, announced that the Coast Guard would name an additional cutter after Terrell Horne, the first Coast Guard member to be murdered in the line of duty, since 1927.[54][55][56]

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