USCGC Paul Clark (WPC-1106)

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Paul Clark underway.
History
Name: USCGC Paul Clark (WPC-1106)
Namesake: Paul Clark
Operator: United States Coast Guard
Builder: Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Launched: 2013-01-13
Homeport: Miami, Florida
General characteristics
Class & type: Sentinel-class cutter
Displacement: 353 long tons (359 t)
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 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB
Complement: 2 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:		 L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament:

USCGC Paul Clark is the sixth Sentinel-class cutter. Like the previous five vessels she is homeported in Miami, Florida.[1] She was launched in April 2012.[2] She was delivered to the Coast Guard, for testing, on May 18, 2013.[3]

Operational history

On September 13, 2013 the vessel repatriated 66 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas.[4] The migrants had been intercepted in four separate operations over the preceding days. Smaller vessels had intercepted four different migrant vessels. The Coast Guard Public Affairs Office asserted that their interception of the migrant vessels saved lives because navigation between Cuba and Florida is so dangerous. The migrants were transferred to Paul Clark for repatriation to Cuba.

Namesake

The vessel is named after Paul Leaman Clark, who served as a fireman in the United States Coast Guard during World War II.[5] Clark was staffing a landing craft during a large assault on a beach in French North Africa when the craft's two other crew members were wounded by a Luftwaffe fighter. Clark took command of the craft, took the wounded crew members to a Navy ship for medical care and then returned to his duties as a beachmaster, directing disembarkation activity.

References

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