USCGC Myrtle Hazard in Key West,Florida
Bollinger Shipyards has actually supplied the USCGC Myrtle Hazard to the UNITED STATE Coast Guard in Key West,Florida The Fast Response Cutter (FRC) is the initial of 3 that will certainly be homeported in Apra Harbor, Guam, raising the Coast Guard’s existence in the Indo-Pacific Theater Additionally, later on this year, Bollinger will certainly be supplying the initial of 6 FRCs that will certainly be homeported in Manama, Bahrain, where they will certainly change the Island Class Patrol Boats presently sustaining the Patrol Forces Southwest Asia, the U. S. Coast Guard’s biggest system beyond the United States.
“Our latest delivery of the USCGC Myrtle Hazard is an important milestone in the FRC Program as it is the first of several vessels that will expand and support the Coast Guard’s operational presence and enhance the U.S.’s mission in the Indo-Pacific region – a focal point emphasized by both President Trump and Admiral Shultz,” stated Bollinger President & &Ben Bordelon “Building ships for the U.S. Coast Guard provides critical assets to bolster our national security interests, both domestic and abroad. We are proud and humbled to be partners in the FRC program.”
While the last 12 weeks of the USCGC Myrtle Hazard‘s develop took place throughout the COVID-19 international pandemic, Bollinger took on preventative measures to make sure the health and wellness of staff members as well as preserve its distribution timetable. In enhancement to raised as well as boosted sanitization methods throughout the shipyard, Bollinger established a lot more liberal leave as well as remote job plans along with modified change timetables to advertise social distancing.
“Delivering vessels on schedule and on budget to the Coast Guard in these unprecedented times given the COVID-19 challenges that we are all facing shows the resiliency and dedication of our incredibly capable workforce,” statedBordelon “The FRC hot production line continues to produce and provide stability in the industrial base for the U.S. Government and our Bollinger workforce, assuring economic benefit for the Lafourche Parish Louisiana region, our vendor partners in the 40-plus states that support the FRC program, and our country.”
Each FRC is called for an employed Coast Guard hero that differentiated himself or herself in the line of task. A young mom in 1918, Myrtle Hazard addressed a help-wanted advertisement for a certified radio driver after finishing from a radio as well as telegraphy course at the Baltimore YMCA. Extremely proficient in telegraphy as well as competent in Morse code, the Coast Guard gottenMs Hazard on January 21, 1918 as well as she ended up being the solution’s initial women electrical expert.Ms Hazard operated at UNITED STATE Coast Guard head office in Washington, D.C. as an electrical contractor’s companion third course as well as was later on advertised to electrical expert, first course, prior to being demobilized after the battle’s end.
