The UNITED STATE Coast Guard’s most recent cutter, the Coast Guard Cutter Warren Deyampert (WPC-1151), was appointed at Coast Guard Base Boston, March 30.
Chief Warrant Officer Lance DeFoggi, presumed command of the cutter throughout an event commanded by Vice Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard Atlantic Area leader. The Warren Deyampert is the secondly of 6 Fast Response Cutters that will certainly be homeported in Boston, offering along the first Coast Guard District.
Built by Louisiana- based Bollinger Shipyards, the Sentinel- course rapid reaction cutter (FRC) is developed for numerous objectives, consisting of medicine and also migrant interdiction; ports, rivers and also seaside protection; fishery patrols; search and also rescue; and also nationwide protection. The Coast Guard has actually gotten 65 FRCs to change the 1980s-era Island- course 110-foot patrol watercrafts. The FRCs include sophisticated command, control, interactions, computer systems, knowledge, security and also reconnaissance tools; over-the-horizon cutter watercraft release to get to vessels of passion; and also boosted habitability and also seakeeping.
Born in Attalla, Ala., the cutter’s name signed up with the Coast Guard at age 19, and also offered aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba throughout World War II, starting in August, 1941. Deyampert’s main duty was within the food solution score, however he additionally worked as among the ship’s 3 rescue swimmers.
Following a torpedo strike on the united state Army transportation ship Dorchester in North Atlantic waters onFeb 3, 1943, Deyampert swam in outright darkness to rescue survivors in the cold waters of theNorth Atlantic His initiatives influenced the rescue of greater than 100 crewmembers, a number of whom were hypothermic and also incapable to swim.
Four months later on, June 13, 1943, the Escanaba sank, complying with a surge onboard that was thought to be from a torpedo strike. All however 2 crewmembers were eliminated in the surge. Deyampert was posthumously granted the Navy and also Marine Corps Medal and also Purple Heart Medal for his brave rescue of the Dorchester team.
