USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102)
| Moving the USCG Richard Etheridge to another mooring as her final equipment is added.
Pre-commissioning photo of the future
USCGC Richard Etheridge, moving to another mooring as her final equipment is added. |
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| Name: | USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102) |
| Namesake: | Richard Etheridge |
| Operator: | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder: | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched: | August 18, 2011 |
| Acquired: | May 26, 2012 |
| Commissioned: | August 3, 2012 |
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| 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: |
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| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
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| Boats & landing craft carried: |
1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB |
| Complement: | 2 officers, 20 crew |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
L-3 C4ISR suite |
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The USCGC Richard Etheridge is the second of the United States Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutters. Like most of her sister ships she will replace a 110 feet (34 m) Island-class patrol boat.
The Richard Etheridge was launched in August 2011.[1]
The vessel was officially delivered to the Coast Guard on May 26, 2012, at Key West, Florida, and was commissioned into service in Port Everglades, Florida, on August 3, 2012.[2][3]
The Richard Etheridge, and the first and third vessels in the class, the Bernard C. Webber, and the William Flores, will all be based in Miami, Florida.[4]
Like the other ships of her class the Richard Etheridge is named after a heroic enlisted member of the Coast Guard.
Operational history
On March 18, 2014, the Richard Etheridge landed 1500 pounds of illicit drugs captured as part of Operation Martillo.[5]
Design
The Sentinel-class cutters were designed to replace the shorter 110 feet (34 m) Island-class patrol boats.[6] Richard Etheridge is with a remote-control 25 mm Bushmaster autocannon and four, crew-served M2HB .50-caliber machine guns. It has a bow thruster for maneuvering in crowded anchorages and channels. It also has small underwater fins for coping with the rolling and pitching caused by large waves. It are equipped with a stern launching ramp, like the Marine Protector-class and the eight failed expanded Island-class cutters. It has a complement of twenty-two crew members. Like the Marine Protector class, and the cancelled extended Island-class cutters, the Sentinel-class cutters deploy the Short Range Prosecutor Rigid-hulled inflatable (SRP or RHIB) in rescues and interceptions.[7] 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.[8]
Richard Etheridge has an overall length of 153 feet 6 inches (46.79 m), a beam of 25 feet (7.6 m), and a displacement of 325 long tons (330 t; 364 short tons). Its draft is 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m) and it has a maximum speed of over 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph). The Sentinel-class cutters have endurances of five days and a range of 2,950 nautical miles (3,390 mi; 5,460 km).[6]
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