Sentinel-class cutter

Sentinel-class cutter
The first Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter (FRC), USCGC Bernard C. Webber.
Class overview
Name: Sentinel class
Operators: United States Coast Guard
Planned: 58
Active: 23
General characteristics
Type: 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 kW (5,800 shp)
  • 1 × 75 kW (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 × Cutter Boat - Over the horizon - Jet-drive
Complement: 4 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:		 L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament:

The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as Fast Response Cutter due to its program name, 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 eight unseaworthy[4] 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era 110-foot Island-class patrol boats, like USCGC Matagorda taken out of service in December 2006. Up 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On March 14, 2007, United States Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen announced that the USCG had withdrawn a contract from Bollinger for the construction of a new class of vessels, but had not entirely cancelled the program.[4][5][6] The new program would focus more on existing "off-the-shelf" technology.

Graphic of USCG Sentinel-class cutter modifications made to the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel design.

On September 26, 2008, Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, United States, was awarded US$88 million to build a prototype.[7] The vessel would be the first of a series of 24-34 46.8-meter (154 ft) cutters built to a design largely based on the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessels from the Netherlands firm the Damen Group.[8] The South African government operates three similar 154 ft Lillian Ngoyi-class vessels for environmental and fishery patrol.[9]

The first cutter, USCGC Bernard C. Webber, and all future Sentinel-class vessels would be named after enlisted Coast Guard heroes.[10] Bernard C. Webber was launched on Thursday, April 21, 2011, and commissioned on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the Port of Miami.[11]

Bernard C. Webber, and five sister ships, are stationed in Miami, Florida. 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.[12]

On September 26, 2013, Marine Link reported that the Coast Guard had placed orders with Bollinger Shipyards for additional cutters, bringing the number of such cutters ordered by then to thirty.[13] As of June 23, 2016, eight more for a total of 38 FRCs have been ordered, 17 are in service, with six in Miami, Florida; six in Key West, Florida; and five in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[14] The 18th fast response cutter, Joseph Tezanos, was delivered to the Coast Guard in Key West, Florida, on June 22, 2016. That cutter will be the sixth stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and will complete the USCG complement there.

Mission

The vessels will perform various Coast Guard missions which include but are not limited to PWCS (Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security), Defense Operations, Maritime Law Enforcement (Drug/migrant interdiction and other Law Enforcement), Search and Rescue, Marine Safety, and environment protection.[15]

Design and construction

USCGC Raymond Evans, the tenth Sentinel-class cutter.

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. The Fast Response Cutter deploys the 26'Cutter Boat - Over the Horizon (OTH-IV) for rescues and interceptions.[16] 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.[17] The vessels are built to ABS High Speed Naval Craft rules.[18] The vessels meet NAVSEA standards for two compartment damaged stability.[19] The vessels have space, weight, and power reserved for future requirements which includes weapons and their systems.

On September 26, 2008, Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, was awarded US$88 million to build the prototype first vessel in its class.[20] That vessel became USCGC Bernard C. Webber, which is the first of 58 planned Sentinel-class cutters to go into the U.S. Coast Guard fleet to replace their remaining 37 aging, 1980s-era 110 ft Island-class patrol boats.[21]

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.[22]

The bridge is equipped with a handheld device that allows crew members to remotely control the ship's functions, including rudder movement and docking.[23]

On July 24, 2014, it was announced that the U.S. Coast Guard had exercised a $225 million option at Bollinger Shipyards for construction through 2017 of an additional six Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs), bringing the total number of FRCs under contract with Bollinger to 30. Later that number was increased to 32 cutters.

On May 4, 2016, Bollinger Shipyards announced that the U.S. Coast Guard awarded it a new contract for building the final 26 Sentinel-class fast-response cutters. That brings to 58 the total number of FRCs that the USCG ordered from Bollinger.[24] Acquiring the 58 cutters is expected to cost the federal government $3.8 billion — an average of about $65 million per cutter.

Crew accommodation

Prior to the deployment of the Marine Protector class, the Coast Guard decided that all its cutters, even its smallest, should be able to accommodate mixed sex crews, and the Sentinel-class cutters are also able to accommodate mixed sex crews. When Rollin A. Fritch was commissioned a profile in the Philadelphia Inquirer asserted off-duty crew members had access to satellite television broadcasts.[23] The vessels come equipped with a desalinization unit.[23]

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.[25][26][27]

Name Pennant 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 2011-08-18 2012-08-03 Miami, FL in active service[28]
William Flores WPC-1103 Bollinger Shipyards 2011-11-10 2012-11-03 Miami, FL in active service[29]
Robert Yered WPC-1104 Bollinger Shipyards 2012-11-23 2013-02-17 Miami, FL in active service[30][31]
Margaret Norvell WPC-1105 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-01-13 2013-06-01 Miami, FL in active service[32][33][34][35]
Paul Clark WPC-1106 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-05-18 2013-08-24 Miami, FL in active service[36]
Charles David Jr. WPC-1107 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-08-17 2013-11-16 Key West, FL[37] in active service[32][33][38][39][40][41][42]
Charles W. Sexton WPC-1108 Bollinger Shipyards 2013-12-10 2014-03-08 Key West, FL in active service[32][33][43][44]
Kathleen Moore WPC-1109 Bollinger Shipyards 2014-03-28 2014-05-10 Key West, FL In active service[45]
Raymond Evans[46] WPC-1110 Bollinger Shipyards 2014-06-25 2014-09-06 Key West, FL In active service[32][33][47][48][49][50]
William Trump WPC-1111 Bollinger Shipyards 2014-11-25 2015-01-24 Key West, FL In active service[32][33][51][52][53][54]
Isaac Mayo WPC-1112 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-01-13 2015-03-28 Key West, FL in active service[32][33][55]
Richard Dixon WPC-1113 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-04-14 2015-06-20 Puerto Rico In active service[12][32][56]
Heriberto Hernandez WPC-1114 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-07-30 2015-10-16 Puerto Rico In active service[12][57][58]
Joseph Napier WPC-1115 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-10-20 2016-01-29 Puerto Rico In active service[12][59][60]
Winslow W. Griesser WPC-1116 Bollinger Shipyards 2015-12-23 2016-03-11 Puerto Rico In active service[12][59]
Donald Horsley WPC-1117 Bollinger Shipyards 2016-03-05 2016-05-20 Puerto Rico In active service[59][61]
Joseph Tezanos WPC-1118 Bollinger Shipyards 2016-06-22 2016-08-26 Puerto Rico In active service[59][62]
Rollin A. Fritch WPC-1119 Bollinger Shipyards 2016-08-23 2016-11-19 Cape May, NJ in active service[59]
Lawrence O. Lawson WPC-1120 Bollinger Shipyards 2016-10-20 2017-03-18 Cape May, NJ in active service
John F. McCormick WPC-1121 Bollinger Shipyards 2016-12-13 2017-04-12 Ketchikan, AK in active service[63]
Bailey T. Barco WPC-1122 Bollinger Shipyards 2017-02-07 2017-06-14 Ketchikan, AK in active service[59][64][65][66]
Benjamin B. Dailey WPC-1123 Bollinger Shipyards 2017-04-20 2017-07-04 Pascagoula, MS in active service[59][67][68][69]
Oliver F. Berry WPC-1124 Bollinger Shipyards 2017-06-27 2017-10 Honolulu, HI sea trials[59][70]
Jacob L. A. Poroo WPC-1125 Bollinger Shipyards 2017-11 Pascagoula, MS [59]
Joseph Gerczak WPC-1126 Bollinger Shipyards [59]
Richard T. Snyder WPC-1127
Nathan Bruckenthal WPC-1128
Forrest O. Rednour WPC-1129
Robert G. Ward WPC-1130
Terrell Horne III WPC-1131
Benjamin A. Bottoms WPC-1132
Joseph O. Doyle WPC-1133
William C. Hart WPC-1134
Oliver F. Berry WPC-1135

On February 10, 2015, the USCG solicited vendors to bid to provide temporary lodging services for USCG Pre-Commissioning crews in Lockport for each of 19 specific cutters to be launched for 19 specific date periods per vessel from April 19, 2015, out through December 28, 2018.[71]

Operational histories

Dramatic video was released when USCGC William Trump conducted a 20-hour pursuit of a high-speed 35-ft center console boat stolen from Fort Myers, Florida, in December 2015.[72][73]

Press coverage of the vessels' operational histories suggests they have been effective at interdicting refugees who resort to dangerous overloaded small boats, and effective at capturing drug smugglers.[74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87]

The cutters have also intercepted smugglers carrying large shipments of drugs.[88] In February 2017 Joseph Napier intercepted a shipment of over 4 tons of cocaine, reported to be the largest drug-bust in the Atlantic Ocean since 1999.

Additionally, cutters are given tasks like looking for shipping containers full of toxic cargo that have fallen from container ships, as USCGC Margaret Norvell did in December 2015, when 25 containers fell from the barge Columbia Elizabeth.[89][90] Similarly, Charles Sexton helped search for the freighter El Faro when she was lost at sea during Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015.[91]

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.[92] Originally the first vessel of the class was to be named USCGC Sentinel.[93]

In October 2010 the Coast Guard named the first fourteen individuals the vessels will be named after, and has provided biographies of them.[94] They are: Bernard C. Webber, Richard Etheridge, William Flores, Robert Yered, Margaret Norvell, Paul Clark, Charles David Jr, 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.[59]

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. The 17th cutter (ex-USCGC Richard H. Patterson) was renamed as Donald H. Horsley after request of the Patterson Family, and the 24th cutter (ex-USCGC Donald H. Horsley) then was renamed as Oliver F. Berry.

On July 30, 2014, Coast Guard Commandant, Paul Zukunft, announced that the Coast Guard would name an additional cutter after Senior Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne, the first Coast Guard member to be murdered in the line of duty since 1927.[95][96][97]

In February, 2015, the Coast Guard publicized ten more names tentatively assigned to cutters 26 through 35.[98] They were: Joseph Gerczak, Richard T. Snyder, Nathan Bruckenthal, Forrest O. Rednour, Robert G. Ward, Terrell Horne III, Benjamin A. Bottoms, Joseph O. Doyle, William C. Hart, and Oliver F. Berry.

References

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  46. ↑ Originally was to be named the Joseph Napier, but, in 2013, the number was reassigned to the recently deceased Commander Raymond Evans. WPC-1115 became the Joseph Napier.
  47. ↑ "Bollinger Delivers 10th Coast Guard FRC". Maritime Executive. 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2014-06-25. The Coast Guard took delivery on June 25, 2014 in Key West, Florida and is scheduled to commission the vessel in Key West, Florida during September, 2014.
  48. ↑ "KEY WEST NAVY LEAGUE COMMISSIONING COMMITTEE welcomes you". Key West Navy League. Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2014-08-20. Be a SPONSOR of the commissioning and be part of the excitement as our local Coast Guard Sector builds the newest local fleet! Next Commissioning is September 6, 2014 for CGC RAYMOND EVANS (WPC-1110).
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  61. ↑ "Bollinger Shipyards delivers latest Coast Guard cutter". Houma Today. 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-03-09. The 154-foot patrol craft is the 17th vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program.
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  63. ↑ Charles Michel (2017-04-12). "A first for Alaska, a first for the West Coast". Juneau Empire. Retrieved 2017-04-13. It is Alaska’s first Fast Response Cutter and the first to be stationed west of the Mississippi River.
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  69. ↑ "Bollinger delivers the 23rd FRC to USCG". Port News. 2017-04-21. Archived from the original on 2017-04-22. This vessel is named after Coast Guard Hero Benjamin Dailey. Dailey, Keeper of the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station, was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal on April 24, 1885 for his exceptional bravery in one of the most daring rescues by the Life-Saving Service.
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  73. ↑ Alastair Jamieson (2015-12-28). "Suspected Boat Thieves in Lee County, Florida, Lead Coast Guard on 345-Mile Chase". NBC News. Retrieved 2015-12-28. Three suspected boat thieves led the Coast Guard on a 345-mile high-speed chase lasting nearly 20 hours before they were eventually captured off Mexico, officials in Florida said Sunday.
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  75. ↑ "U.S. Coast Guard Seizes 515 Kilos of Cocaine In ‘Operation Caribbean Venture’". Space Coast Daily. 2015-11-22. Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. The four suspected smugglers were transferred to U.S. authorities for prosecution. The Friesland transferred the suspects and contraband to the Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C. Webber who was returning home from a successful counterdrug patrol off of Puerto Rico in support of Operation Unified Resolve.
  76. ↑ Alfonso Chardy (2015-12-20). "Details of cocaine bust near Dominican coast revealed". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2015-12-21. In this case, the interdiction operation involved the Coast Guard and the HNLMS Friesland, an offshore patrol vessel from the Royal Netherlands Navy.
  77. ↑ Mark Barney (2015-11-20). "Cutter Bernard C. Webber crew offloads $17M in seized cocaine in Miami". Miami Beach: Dvidshub. Retrieved 2016-04-11. A Coast Guardsman offloads cocaine at Coast Guard Sector Miami Beach, Florida, Nov. 20, 2015.
  78. ↑ Cheryl Pellerin (2015-08-26). "DoD 101: Drugs, Thugs and the Coast Guard". Miami Beach: DoD News, Defense Media. Retrieved 2016-04-11. On the Webber, Gould and Mike Cortese, commanding officer of Coast Guard Station Miami Beach, show the SLEP group what the Coast Guard does if it catches a target of interest making an illicit run from Bimini to the United States carrying migrants, drugs, money or guns.
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  81. ↑ "Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark repatriates 66 Cuban migrants". Miami, Florida: Coast Guard News. 2013-09-13. Retrieved 2013-09-13. Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark repatriated 66 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Friday. This repatriation was a result of four separate migrant interdiction events this week.
  82. ↑ "Cutter Charles Sexton Repatriates 39 Cuban Migrants". Military Daily. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2015-11-20. This repatriation is a result of three separate interdictions at sea in the south Florida Straits. These were interdictions of Cuban nationals attempting to illegally enter the United States on unseaworthy vessels commonly referred to as "rustics" or "chugs."
  83. ↑ "US Coast Guard repatriates 85 Cuban migrants". Caribean News Now. 2015-11-03. Retrieved 2015-11-03. The Coast Guard Cutters Kathleen Moore, Marlin, along with numerous other Coast Guard patrol boats and aircraft, aggressively patrol the Florida Straits to detect and deter illegal and unsafe maritime migration. Safety of life at sea is always the Coast Guard's top priority.
  84. ↑ "US Coast Guard seized $41M in drugs in Caribbean Sea". Jacksonville Sentinel. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2016-04-04. The agency's cutter Richard Dixon responded and seized the vessel after suspects tossed four packages into the water.
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  86. ↑ "Dominican Republic Migrants Intercepted Heading Towards Puerto Rico". Curaçao Chronicle. 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2016-04-04. The crew of the USCG Richard Dixon transferred the 25 migrants, who claimed to be citizens of the Dominican Republic, on board the cutter for safety and biometric processing.
  87. ↑ "US Coast Guard rescues 14 Dominican boatpeople". Dominican Today. 2016-04-02. Retrieved 2016-04-04. The Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon repatriated the remaining 14 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic during an at-sea transfer of the migrants to a Dominican Navy patrol vessel Friday just south of La Romana.
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  95. ↑ Christopher Lagan (2014-07-30). "Coast Guard to name cutter for BMCS Terrell Horne III". Coast Guard Compass. Retrieved 2014-08-02. The Commandant personally informed the Horne family earlier today a fast response cutter will bear Terrell Horne’s name in honor of his sacrifice and faithful service in defense of his nation.
  96. ↑ Kevin Roderick (2014-02-05). "Mexican smugglers convicted in sea death of Coast Guard Chief Horne". LA Observed. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-08-06. Two Mexican nationals from Ensenada who were apprehended on a smuggling panga in December 2012 were convicted today in the death of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III.
  97. ↑ Kate Mather (2014-02-15). "Mexican nationals convicted in 2012 death of Coast Guardsman". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2014-08-02. Retrieved 2014-08-06. Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III's death made him the first Coast Guardsman murdered in the line of duty since 1927, officials said. Horne, who spent 14 years with the Coast Guard, was posthumously promoted to the rank of senior chief petty officer.
  98. ↑ "Acquisition Update: Coast Guard Reveals Names of FRCs 26-35". US Coast Guard. 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2017-03-25. The Coast Guard recently announced the names of the 26th through 35th Sentinel-class fast response cutters through a series of posts on its official blog, the Coast Guard Compass.
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