Fast Response Cutter USCGC John Patterson seen at supply in Key West, Fla
Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the USCGC John Patterson to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 179th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year interval and the 53rd Fast Response Cutter (FRC) delivered below the present program.
The USCGC John Patterson would be the fourth of six FRCs to be homeported in Sector Boston, which is called “The Birthplace of the Coast Guard.” The sector is accountable for coastal security, safety, and environmental safety from the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border southward to Plymouth, Massachusetts out to 200 nautical miles offshore. Sector Boston directs over 1,500 energetic obligation, reserve, and auxiliary members whose mission is to guard and safe important infrastructure, rescue mariners in peril at sea, implement federal legislation, keep navigable waterways, and reply to all hazards impacting the maritime transportation system and coastal area.
“We’re incredibly proud to deliver another Fast Response Cutter to be homeported in Boston, the birthplace of the U.S. Coast Guard,” mentioned Bollinger president and CEO Ben Bordelon. “We’re confident that pound for pound, the quality and capabilities of the FRC platform is unmatched, and that this vessel will outperform its mission requirements and expectations in the challenging conditions where it will operate in the North Atlantic. Our unique experience building for the Coast Guard is unparalleled and has shown time and time again that we can successfully deliver the highest quality vessels on a reliable, aggressive production schedule. We look forward to continuing our historic partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard.”
Each FRC is known as for an enlisted Coast Guard hero who distinguished themselves within the line of obligation. While connected to an LST in the course of the invasion at Anzio, Italy, throughout World War II, Coxswain John Patterson volunteered as a member of a ship crew to go the aspect of a burning LST throughout a full gale in an effort to rescue personnel trapped under decks. Despite the very fact the blazing ship was pitching and rolling in a harmful method and ammunition was exploding he aided within the rescue of a soldier, trapped in a decrease compartment and introduced him to security.
Measuring in at 154-feet, FRCs have a flank velocity of 28 knots, cutting-edge C4ISR suite (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), and stern launch and restoration ramp for a 26-foot, over-the-horizon interceptor cutter boat.
