The U.S. Coast Guard has exercised a contract option with Lockport, Louisiana-based Bollinger Shipyards for the construction of four additional Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs), bringing the total number of FRCs awarded to Bollinger to 64 vessels.
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The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Steadfast is celebrating the ship’s 50 years of maritime service. Since the cutter’s commissioning in 1968, its crew has performed nearly all of the U.S. Coast Guard’s 11 statutory missions. The cutter is best known, however, for its role enforcing maritime law through the execution of hundreds of successful drug and migrant
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Bollinger Shipyards delivered USCGC Richard Snyder, the 27th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard took delivery on Feb. 8, 2018 in Key West, Florida. The vessel’s commissioning is scheduled for April, 2018 in Atlantic Beach, NC. The 154 foot patrol craft is the 27th vessel in the Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class FRC program. It was built using an in-service
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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced the names for its Sentinel Class of fast response cutters (FRC), each vessel being named for a deceased leader, trailblazer or hero of the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessor services of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, the U.S. Lifesaving Service and the U.S. Lighthouse Service. The FRCs are replacing the aging Island-class 110-foot
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