Sentinel-class cutter

In March 2007, newly appointed United States Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen announced that the USCG had withdrawn a contract from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for the construction of an initial flawed design of what would eventually become the Sentinel class.

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Allen announced that instead of the initial high-tech design Bollinger would build vessels based on an existing design, and the new program would focus more on existing "off-the-shelf" technology.

The design chosen was largely based on the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessels from the Netherlands firm the Damen Group. The South African government operates three similar 154 ft Lillian Ngoyi-class vessels for environmental and fishery patrol.{{cite news

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In September 2008, Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, was awarded US$88 million to build the prototype first vessel in its class.

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That prototype was the first of a projected series of {{convert|46.8|m|ft|adj=on|sp=us}} cutters. In September 2008 the series was expected to comprise a maximum of 24 to 34 cutters{{cite news

|url = http://www.uscg.mil/ACQUISITION/newsroom/pdf/sentinelmediabrief.pdf

|title = SENTINEL Class Patrol Boat: Media Round Table

|publisher = United States Coast Guard

|date = 2008-09-30

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}} but by the time the prototype cutter, which became USCGC Bernard C. Webber, entered service in 2012 the planned number of Sentinel-class cutters had grown to 58. They replaced the 37 remaining aging, 1980s-era 110 ft Island-class patrol boats.

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{{USCGC|Bernard C. Webber|WPC-1101|6}} and all following Sentinel-class vessels are named after enlisted Coast Guard heroes.

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Bernard C. Webber was launched in April 2011, and commissioned in April 2012 at the Port of Miami. She and five sister ships are stationed in Miami, Florida. The second cohort of six vessels is homeported in Key West, Florida. The third cohort of six vessels is homeported in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As of October 2024, the Coast Guard plans to station most of the Sentinel-class cutters in the United States, but a cohort of six is stationed with the Coast Guard's largest unit outside the United States, Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA), whose homeport is Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. As many as six more are planned to be stationed in the Indo-Pacific region.{{cite report |last=O'Rourke |first=Ronald |date=2025-03-05 |title=Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress |url=https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R42567 |publisher=Congressional Research Service |page=17 |access-date=2025-03-28 |quote=Under the original POR [program of record], all 58 FRCs would be for domestic use. The Coast Guard has since modified the POR to call for procuring up to 71 FRCs, including 59 (rather than 58) for domestic use, another 6 for use by the Coast Guard in the Persian Gulf as elements of a Bahrain-based Coast Guard unit, called Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA), which is the Coast Guard’s largest unit outside the United States, and up to 6 more for use in the Indo- Pacific region.}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Area-Units/PATFORSWA/Departments/ |title=Patrol Forces Southwest Asia: PATFORSWA: Departments |author= |website=United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |publisher=Defense Media Activity |access-date=2024-11-13}}

A second contract was awarded on December 15, 2009 for an additional three Sentinel-class cutters at a cost of US$141 million. By April 2010 the Coast Guard's contract with Bollinger allowed for the order of up to 34 Sentinel-class cutters at a cost of up to US$1.5 billion. Even then, the Coast Guard was planning to build a total of 58 Sentinel-class cutters.

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| quote = On Dec. 15, 2009, the Coast Guard awarded a $141 million contract option to Bollinger to begin low-rate initial production on three additional Sentinel-class FRCs. The current contract is worth up to $1.5 billion if all options for 34 cutters are exercised. The Coast Guard plans to build a total of 58 Sentinel-class FRCs.

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In September 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.

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In July 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.

In May 2016, Bollinger Shipyards announced that the U.S. Coast Guard had awarded it a new contract for building the final 26 Sentinel-class fast-response cutters. That brought to 58 the total number of FRCs that the USCG ordered from Bollinger.{{cite web |url=http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/05/bollinger-shipyards-contract-remaining-26-coast-guard-cutters.html |title=Bollinger Shipyards Gets Contract for Remaining 26 Coast Guard Cutters |publisher=Military.com |date=May 5, 2016 |access-date=July 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710220738/http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/05/bollinger-shipyards-contract-remaining-26-coast-guard-cutters.html |archive-date=July 10, 2016 |url-status=live }} Acquiring the 58 cutters was expected to cost the federal government $3.8 billion — an average of about $65 million per cutter.

By June 2016, 38 of the projected 58 FRCs had been ordered and 17 were in service. The Miami and Key West chorts were complete. The 18th fast response cutter, Joseph Tezanos, was delivered to the Coast Guard in Key West, Florida, in June 2016 en route to completing the San Juan cohort.{{cite web

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On August 9, 2018 the Coast Guard exercised its contract option to order six more Sentinel-class cutters. These would be the 45th through 50th cutters of that class. With this order, the total value of orders under the contract grew to almost US$929 million. On August 21 the 30th fast response cutter, Robert Ward, was delivered.{{cite press release |author= |title=FRCs aid in hurricane response, Coast Guard FRC program grows |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/1626198/frcs-aid-in-hurricane-response-coast-guard-frc-program-grows/ |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Defense Media Activity |agency=Acquisition Directorate, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |date=2018-09-10 |access-date=2024-08-10}}

On July 31, 2019 the Coast Guard exercised its contract option to order another six Sentinel-class cutters. These would be the 51st through 56th cutters of that class. With this order, the total value of orders under the contract grew to about US$1.23 billion. Under the contract, the Coast Guard could order as many as 58 cutters, at a total cost of US$1.42 billion. The six new cutters were expected to be delivered starting in late 2022 and ending in late 2023.{{cite press release |author= |title=Coast Guard exercises contract option for FRCs 51-56 |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/1927372/coast-guard-exercises-contract-option-for-frcs-51-56/ |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Defense Media Activity |agency=Acquisition Directorate, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |date=2019-08-06 |access-date=2024-08-12}}

In September 2020, the Coast Guard announced it was ordering four more FRCs from Bollinger, to be delivered in 2024. These would be the 56th through 60th cutters of that class. At that time, 40 FRCs had been delivered and 38 had been commissioned. The Coast Guard had recently modified its contract with Bollinger to increase the maximum number of cutters that could be ordered under the contract to 64. The modified contract had a potential value of US$1.74 billion.{{cite web |url=https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/09/four-more-sentinel-class-fast-response-cutters-for-the-us-coast-guard/ |title=Four more Sentinel-class fast response cutters for the US Coast Guard |first=Nathan |last=Gain |date=28 September 2020 |website=Naval News |access-date=31 October 2020}}

In 2017, the Coast Guard announced two FRCs would be stationed in Astoria, Oregon starting in 2021.{{cite news |title=U.S. Coast Guard will base two new cutters in Astoria |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/04/us_coast_guard_will_base_two_n.html |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804110353/https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/04/us_coast_guard_will_base_two_n.html |archive-date=4 August 2018 |url-status=live }} In 2018, the Coast Guard announced four more would be stationed in San Pedro, California in 2018 and 2019.{{cite news |title=Four new Coast Guard cutters bound for California duty |url=https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/202815e |access-date=3 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804045844/https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/202815e |archive-date=4 August 2018 |url-status=live }} Also in 2018, the Coast Guard revealed plans to eventually homeport a total of six FRCs in Alaska, with one cutter in Sitka, one in Seward, and two in Kodiak, joining two already operating from Ketchikan.{{cite news |title=Alaska delegation cheers new coast guard ships to patrol state waters |url=http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Alaska-delegation-cheers-new-coast-guard-ships-to-patrol-state-waters-480855331.html |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529034342/http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Alaska-delegation-cheers-new-coast-guard-ships-to-patrol-state-waters-480855331.html |archive-date=29 May 2018 |url-status=live }} Boston, Massachusetts and St. Petersburg, Florida would eventually be FRC homeports.{{cite web |title=Fast Response Cutter |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Portals/10/CG-9/Acquisition%20PDFs/Factsheets/FRC.pdf |access-date=4 January 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/10/u-s-coast-guard-commissions-45th-fast-response-cutter/ |title=U.S. Coast Guard commissions 45th fast response cutter |date=19 October 2021 |website=NavalNews |access-date=16 November 2021}}

In June 2019, the United States House Committee on Armed Services approved a requirement for the US Navy to study the possibility of buying a version of the FRC, and basing them in Bahrain.{{cite web |title=House, Senate Defense Bills Tough on Littoral Combat Ship Programs |url=https://news.usni.org/2019/06/13/house-senate-defense-bills-tough-on-littoral-combat-ship-programs |website=news.usni.org |date=13 June 2019 |access-date=15 June 2019 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615053804/https://news.usni.org/2019/06/13/house-senate-defense-bills-tough-on-littoral-combat-ship-programs |archive-date=15 June 2019 |url-status=live }}

In 2019 Lieutenant Commander Collin Fox (USN), and columnist David Axe suggested that, when the US Navy started to develop unmanned patrol ships to replace the {{sclass|Cyclone|patrol ship|4}}, which are similar in size to the Sentinel class, the hulls and other elements of the robot ships would be based on the Sentinels, and built in the same factory.

In August 2021, the Coast Guard exercised its option to order four more Sentinel-class cutters{{emdash}}the 61st through 64th{{emdash}}from Bollinger. Bollinger planned to build the ships at Bollinger's Lockport, Louisiana facility{{cite news |url=https://www.stripes.com/branches/coast_guard/2021-08-11/coast-guard-fast-response-cutters-bollinger-shipyards-2520699.html |title=Coast Guard orders four more $65 million fast-response cutters from Louisiana shipbuilder |first=Alex |last=Wilson |newspaper=Stars and Stripes |date=August 11, 2021 |access-date=August 27, 2022 }} and deliver the first of the four vessels in the fall of 2024 and the last in the summer of 2025.{{cite web |url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/11/coast-guard-orders-four-more-65-million-fast-response-cutters-louisiana-shipbuilder.html |title=Coast Guard orders four more $65 million fast-response cutters from Louisiana shipbuilder |publisher=military.com |access-date=24 August 2021 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210824193942/https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/11/coast-guard-orders-four-more-65-million-fast-response-cutters-louisiana-shipbuilder.html |archive-date=24 August 2021}}

In 2022, the Coast Guard awarded a $30 million contract to install a fixed pier and two floating docks to accommodate FRCs at East Tongue Point in Oregon. The first new cutter is expected to arrive at Astoria, Oregon in March 2024 rather than in 2021 as originally planned.{{cite news |url=https://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-awards-contract-to-expand-east-tongue-point-facilities/ |title=Coast Guard awards contract to expand East Tongue Point facilities |date=12 July 2022 |magazine=Coast Guard News |access-date=27 August 2022}}

In March 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2022, which provided $130 million in funding for two additional FRCs, bringing the total number to 66.{{cite web |url=https://www.nrdc.org/experts/alexandra-adams/government-spending-bill-signed-law-what-you-need-know |title=Government Spending Bill Is Signed into Law: What You Need to Know |website=nrdc.org |date=March 18, 2022 |access-date=August 27, 2022 }}{{cite news |url=https://seapowermagazine.org/coast-guard-accepts-delivery-of-49th-fast-response-cutter-douglas-denman/ |title=Coast Guard Accepts Delivery of 49th Fast Response Cutter Douglas Denman |magazine=Seapower |date=March 18, 2022 |access-date=August 27, 2022 }} In August 2022, the Coast Guard exercised its contract option for the first of these additional cutters, to be delivered by Bollinger in 2025.{{cite web |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3126484/coast-guard-exercises-contract-option-to-build-one-fast-response-cutter/ |title=Coast Guard exercises contract option to build one fast response cutter |website=dcms.uscg.mil |date=August 12, 2022 |access-date=August 27, 2022 |quote=The Coast Guard exercised a contract option Aug. 9 for production of one Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC)...This option brings the total number of FRCs under contract with Bollinger to 65...The FRC built under this option will be delivered in 2025.}} This order expanded the total value of the Phase 2 contract with Bollinger Shipyards to US$1.8 billion.{{cite press release |author= |title=Coast Guard exercises contract option to build one fast response cutter |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3126484/coast-guard-exercises-contract-option-to-build-one-fast-response-cutter/ |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Defense Media Activity |agency=Acquisition Directorate, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |date=2022-08-12 |access-date=2024-08-13}}

On May 8, 2024 the Coast Guard exercised a contract option for two additional FRCs, bringing the total vessels built by or under contract with Bollinger to 67{{cite news |url=https://bizneworleans.com/u-s-coast-guard-awards-bollinger-shipyards-2-fast-response-cutters/ |title=U.S. Coast Guard Awards Bollinger Shipyards 2 Fast Response Cutters |date=May 14, 2024 |magazine=Biz New Orleans |access-date=June 15, 2024 |quote=The U.S. Coast Guard has exercised a contract option to award Bollinger Shipyards two additional Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutters. This announcement brings the total number of FRCs awarded to Bollinger up to 67 vessels since the program’s inception.}} and the total value of the Phase 2 contract to about US$2 billion. The two new FRCs are expected to be delivered in fiscal year 2028.{{cite press release |author= |title=Coast Guard exercises contract option to build two fast response cutters |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3777090/coast-guard-exercises-contract-option-to-build-two-fast-response-cutters/ |publisher=Defense Media Activity |agency=Acquisition Directorate, U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Department of Homeland Security |date=2024-05-16 |access-date=2024-08-13}}

The vessels 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.{{cite web|title=Fast Response Cutter|url=https://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/frc/pdf/FRC_2016.pdf|website=USCG.mil|publisher=The United States Coast Guard|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214105123/https://www.uscg.mil/Acquisition/frc/pdf/FRC_2016.pdf|archive-date=14 February 2017|url-status=live}}

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The vessels are armed with a remote-control Mark 38 25 mm Machine Gun System and four crew-served .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB heavy machine guns. They have a bow thruster for maneuvering in crowded anchorages and channels. They 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 {{sclass2|Marine Protector|coastal patrol boat|0}} and the eight failed expanded Island-class cutters. They are manned by a crew of 22. The Fast Response Cutter deploys the {{convert|26|ft|m|adj=on}} Cutter Boat - Over the Horizon (OTH-IV) for rescues and interceptions.{{cite web |url=http://www.uscg.mil/deepwater/system/srp.htm |title=Short Range Prosecutor (SRP) |publisher=Integrated Deepwater System Program |access-date=2007-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503141238/http://www.uscg.mil/DEEPWATER/system/srp.htm |archive-date=2007-05-03 |url-status=live }}

Modifications to the Coast Guard vessels from the Stan 4708 design include an increase in speed from {{convert|23|to|28|kn}}, fixed-pitch rather than variable-pitch propellers, stern launch capability, and watertight bulkheads.{{cite news |url=http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMVII/2008sep00261.html |title=Bollinger awarded potential $1.5 billion FRC contract |publisher=Marine Log |date=2009-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104060040/http://marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMVII/2008sep00261.html |archive-date=2010-01-04 |url-status=dead |access-date=2009-10-11 }} The vessels are built to ABS High Speed Naval Craft rules and some parts of the FRC also comply to ABS Naval Vessel Rules.{{cite web |title=U.S. Coast Guard's Acquisition of the Sentinel Class – Fast Response Cutter |url=https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2012/OIG_12-68_Aug12.pdf |website=www.oig.dhs.gov |publisher=Department of Homeland Security |access-date=25 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427110737/https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2012/OIG_12-68_Aug12.pdf |archive-date=27 April 2017 |url-status=live }} The vessels meet Naval Sea Systems Command standards for two compartment damaged stability and meet the Intact and Damage Stability and reserve buoyancy requirements in accordance with the “Procedures Manual for Stability Analyses of U.S. Navy Small Craft".{{cite web|title=Military & Government Vessels|url=http://www.bollingershipyards.com/Portfolio/Military--Government-Vessels|website=bollingershipyards.com|access-date=10 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811010908/http://www.bollingershipyards.com/Portfolio/Military--Government-Vessels|archive-date=11 August 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{cite book|title=USCG Fast Response Cutter B Class (FRC-B)|citeseerx=10.1.1.173.4057}}

The vessels have space, weight, and power reserved for future requirements which includes weapons and their systems. The cutters have a reduced radar cross-section through shaping.{{cite web|title=Systems approach to designing a maritime Phase Zero Force for the year 2020|url=https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/6941/NPS-SE-09-006.pdf?sequence=1|website=calhoun.nps.edu|access-date=12 January 2018|quote=Design features include reduced signature through shaping|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113150317/https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/6941/NPS-SE-09-006.pdf?sequence=1|archive-date=13 January 2018|url-status=live}} The bridge is equipped with a handheld device that allows crew members to remotely control the ship's functions, including rudder movement and docking.

In February 2013, the Department of Homeland Security requested tenders from third party firms to independently inspect the cutters, during their construction, and their performance trials.{{cite news

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At the September 2022 commissioning of USCGC Douglas Denman, it was announced that she had several upgrades compared to the two cutters deployed to Ketchikan, Alaska six years previously. These include an improved bow thruster and radar system and the addition of a forward-looking infrared camera.{{cite web |url=https://www.krbd.org/2022/09/28/new-coast-guard-cutter-douglas-denman-enters-service-after-commissioning-ceremony-in-ketchikan/ |title=New Coast Guard cutter Douglas Denman enters service after commissioning ceremony in Ketchikan |first=Eric |last=Stone |publisher=KRBD, Rainbird Community Radio |date=September 28, 2022 |access-date=October 31, 2022 }} Though initially stationed at Ketchikan, Douglas Denman will eventually be homeported at Sitka when port infrastructure improvements have been completed there.{{cite web |url=https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/3287daf?reqfrom=share |title=Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Denman arrives in Alaska |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard 17th District Alaska |date=August 19, 2022 |access-date=October 31, 2022 }}

In March 2024, a Congressional Research Service report revealed that the Coast Guard's long term procurement plan called for the purchase of up to 71 FRCs. Six of the new cutters would be deployed to the Indo-Pacific region for engagement with allies and partner countries.{{cite news |url=https://news.usni.org/2024/03/19/report-to-congress-on-coast-guard-cutter-procurement-22 |title=Report to Congress on Coast Guard Cutter Procurement |date=March 19, 2024 |magazine=USNI News |access-date=June 15, 2024}}

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-gender crews. The Sentinel-class cutters are able to accommodate mixed-gender crews. When {{USCGC|Rollin Fritch}} was commissioned, a profile in The Philadelphia Inquirer asserted off-duty crew members had access to satellite television broadcasts. The vessels come equipped with a desalination unit.

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| WPC-1155

| 2023-11-16{{cite web |title=55th fast response cutter accepted, to be homeported in Boston |work=United States Coast Guard |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3592201/55th-fast-response-cutter-accepted-to-be-homeported-in-boston/ |date=17 November 2023 |publisher=US Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate |access-date=18 November 2023}}

| 2024-03-28{{cite web |title=US Coast Guard Commissions Fast Response Cutter Melvin Bell |url=https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/non-naval/us-coast-guard-commissions-fast-response-cutter-melvin-bell/ |date=29 March 2024 |publisher=Baird Maritime |access-date=5 April 2024}}

| Boston, Massachusetts

| Active service

|-

| {{USCGC|David Duren|WPC-1156|2|}}

| WPC-1156

| 2024-03-14{{cite web |title=Coast Guard accepts 56th fast response cutter, to be homeported in Astoria, Oregon |work=United States Coast Guard |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3727094/coast-guard-accepts-56th-fast-response-cutter-to-be-homeported-in-astoria-oregon/ |date=1 April 2024 |publisher=US Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate |access-date=5 April 2024}}

| 2024-06-27{{cite press release |author= |title=Coast Guard commissions first Pacific Northwest-based Fast Response Cutter |url=https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3821561/coast-guard-commissions-first-pacific-northwest-based-fast-response-cutter/ |location=Astoria, Oregon |publisher= United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security |date=2024-06-28 |access-date=2024-06-30}}

| Astoria, Oregon

| Active service

|-

| {{USCGC|Florence Finch|WPC-1157|2|}}

| WPC-1157

| 2024-06-13{{cite web |title=Coast Guard accepts 57th fast response cutter |work=United States Coast Guard |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3808732/coast-guard-accepts-57th-fast-response-cutter/ |date=17 June 2024 |publisher=US Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate |access-date=17 June 2024}}

| 2024-10-24{{cite press release |author= |title=Coast Guard commissions second Pacific Northwest-based Fast Response Cutter |url=https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3945668/coast-guard-commissions-second-pacific-northwest-based-fast-response-cutter/ |location=Seattle, Washington |publisher= United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security |date=2024-10-24 |access-date=2024-10-24}}

| Astoria, Oregon

| Active service

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| {{USCGC|John Witherspoon|WPC-1158|2|}}

| WPC-1158

| 2024-11-07{{cite web |title=Coast Guard accepts 58th fast response cutter |work=United States Coast Guard |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/3960612/coast-guard-accepts-delivery-of-58th-fast-response-cutter-first-to-be-homeporte/ |date=8 November 2024 |publisher=US Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate |access-date=10 November 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.kmxt.org/news/2024-11-15/from-key-west-to-kodiak-a-new-coast-guard-cutter-sets-sail-for-its-homeport|title=From Key West to Kodiak, a new Coast Guard cutter sets sail for its homeport |first=Davis |last=Hovey |date=15 November 2024 |publisher=KMXT 100.1FM |location=Kodiak, Alaska |access-date=15 January 2025}}

| 2025-04-03

| Kodiak, Alaska

| Active service{{cite press release |author= |date=3 April 2025 |title=Coast Guard commissions Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon (WPC 1158) in Kodiak, Alaska |url=https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4145482/coast-guard-commissions-coast-guard-cutter-john-witherspoon-wpc-1158-in-kodiak/ |location=Kodiak, Alaska |publisher=Defense Media Activity |agency=United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security |access-date=3 April 2025}}

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| {{USCGC|Earl Cunningham|WPC-1159|2|}}

| WPC-1159

| 2025-03-06{{cite web |title=Coast Guard accepts 59th fast response cutter |work=United States Coast Guard |url=https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/4123196/coast-guard-accepts-59th-fast-response-cutter/ |date=18 March 2025 |publisher=US Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate |access-date=20 March 2025}}

| 2025-08{{cite news |url=https://alaskapublic.org/news/public-safety/2025-01-30/new-coast-guard-fast-response-cutter-arrives-in-kodiak |title=New Coast Guard fast response cutter arrives in Kodiak |date=30 January 2025 |publisher=Alaska Public Media |access-date=20 March 2025}}

| Kodiak, Alaska{{cite web |url=https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/392f4e0 |title=ALCGENL 134/24 - Subj: Critical Fill Solicitation - GM2 Independent Duty - CGC Earl Cunningham |date=27 March 2024 |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard |access-date=5 April 2024}}

| Delivered

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| {{USCGC|Frederick Mann|WPC-1160|2|}}

|| WPC-1160

| 2025-04-17{{cite web |title=ALCGENL 302/24 |url=https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/3aa5d09 |access-date=15 January 2025}}

| 2025-12

| First Kodiak, then Seward, Alaska

| Under construction

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| {{USCGC|Olivia Hooker|WPC-1161|2|}}

|| WPC-1161 || 2026 || || || Under construction

|-

| {{USCGC|Vincent Danz|WPC-1162|2|}}

|| WPC-1162 || 2027 || || || Under construction

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| {{USCGC|Jeffrey Palazzo|WPC-1163|2|}}

|| WPC-1163 || 2027 || || || Under construction

|-

| {{USCGC|Marvin Perrett|WPC-1164|2|}}

|| WPC-1164 || 2027 || || || Under construction

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1165 || 2028 || || || Under contract

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1166 || ‘’2028’’ || || || Planned

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1167 || ‘’2028’’ || || || Planned

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1168 || || || || Under contract

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1169 || || || || Under contract

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1170 || || || || Under contract

|-

| TBD

|| WPC-1171 || || || || Under contract

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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.{{excessive citations inline |date=October 2021}}

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

Cutters are given tasks like looking for shipping containers full of toxic cargo that have fallen from container ships, as {{USCGC|Margaret Norvell|WPC-1105|6}} did in December 2015, when 25 containers fell from the barge {{ship||Columbia Elizabeth}}.

Similarly, Charles Sexton helped search for the freighter {{SS|El Faro||2}} when she was lost at sea during Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015.

In 2018 and 2019 Oliver Berry and Joseph Gerczak made voyages beyond the design range, on missions from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands and American Samoa. Both voyages took nine days.

In August 2022, one of the ships in the Sentinel class, Oliver Henry, was stuck in the Solomon Islands after the country's government failed to respond to a fuel request.{{cite news |date=August 25, 2022 |title=US Coast Guard vessel patrolling for illegal fishing unable to refuel in Solomon Islands |newspaper=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-26/us-coast-guard-vessel-unable-to-refuel-in-solomon-islands/101377816}}

In February 2024, Clarence Sutphin Jr. intercepted a shipment of weaponry on its way to the Houthi militia in the Red Sea.https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/noticias/marinha-americana-interceta-carregamento-de-armas-para-o-grupo-rebelde-houthi-vindo-do-irao (in portuguese)

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.

{{cite news

| url = http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/enlisted-heroes-honored/

| title = Enlisted heroes honored

| publisher = United States Coast Guard

| author = Susan Schept

| date = 2010-03-22

| access-date = 2013-02-01

| archive-date = 2010-03-29

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100329162538/http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/enlisted-heroes-honored/

| url-status = dead

| quote = After the passing of several well-known Coast Guard heroes last year, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Charles “Skip” Bowen mentioned in his blog that the Coast Guard does not do enough to honor its fallen heroes.

}}

Originally, the first vessel of the class was to be named USCGC Sentinel.

{{cite news

| url = http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/786/502127/

| title = U.S. Coast Guard announces name for first Sentinel-class cutter

| date = 2010-03-22

| access-date = 2013-02-01

| archive-date = 2010-03-25

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100325004004/http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/786/502127/

| url-status = dead

| quote = Previously designated to be named the Coast Guard Cutter Sentinel, the cutter Bernard C. Webber will be the first of the service’s new 153-foot patrol cutters. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen approved the change of the cutter’s name to allow this class of vessels to be named after outstanding enlisted members who demonstrated exceptional heroism in the line of duty. This will be the first class of cutters to be named exclusively for enlisted members of the Coast Guard and its predecessor services.

}}

In October 2010 the Coast Guard named the first fourteen individuals the vessels will be named after, and has provided biographies of them.

{{cite news

|url = http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2010/10/coast-guard-heroes/

|title = Coast Guard Heroes

|publisher = United States Coast Guard

|date = 2010-10-27

|access-date = 2012-04-20

|author = Stephanie Young

|archive-date = 2012-11-27

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121127001903/http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2010/10/coast-guard-heroes/

|url-status = dead

}}{{cite news

|url = http://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/pdf/CG9newsletterNov10.pdf

|title = Fast Response Cutters: The Heroes of the Coast Guard Fleet

|publisher = United States Coast Guard

|author = Michael Valliant

|date = November 2010

|page = 1

|access-date = 2011-08-05

|archive-date = 2012-11-05

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121105130017/http://uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/pdf/CG9newsletterNov10.pdf

|url-status = dead

}}{{cite news |url=http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013021531989/us/homeland-security/2013-second-quadrennial-homeland-security-review.html |title=2013 Second Quadrennial Homeland Security Review |author1=James Jay Carafano |author2=Matt A. Mayer |author3=Paul Rosenzweigis |author4=Brian Slattery |date=2013-02-15 |archive-date=2013-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224035556/http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013021531989/us/homeland-security/2013-second-quadrennial-homeland-security-review.html |url-status=dead |quote= |access-date=2013-02-21 }}

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.{{Failed verification|reason=The source mentions no such announcement.|date=July 2024}}

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 R. Horsley, and

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

In July 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.{{cite news

|url = http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2014/07/coast-guard-to-name-cutter-for-bmcs-terrell-horne-iii/

|title = Coast Guard to name cutter for BMCS Terrell Horne III

|publisher = Coast Guard Compass

|author = Christopher Lagan

|date = 2014-07-30

|access-date = 2014-08-02

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140806070438/http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2014/07/coast-guard-to-name-cutter-for-bmcs-terrell-horne-iii/

|archive-date = 2014-08-06

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2014/02/mexican_smugglers_convict.php

| title = Mexican smugglers convicted in sea death of Coast Guard Chief Horne

| publisher = LA Observed

| author = Kevin Roderick

| date = 2014-02-05

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140715001218/http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2014/02/mexican_smugglers_convict.php

| archive-date = 2014-07-15

| access-date = 2014-08-06

| url-status = live

| quote = 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.

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mexican-nationals-convicted-coast-guard-20140205-story.html

| title = Mexican nationals convicted in 2012 death of Coast Guardsman

| newspaper = Los Angeles Times

| author = Kate Mather

| date = 2014-02-15

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140802170025/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/05/local/la-me-ln-mexican-nationals-convicted-coast-guard-20140205

| archive-date = 2014-08-02

| access-date = 2014-08-06

| url-status = live

| quote = 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.

}}

In February 2015, the Coast Guard publicized ten more names tentatively assigned to cutters 26 through 35.

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.

In December 2017, the Coast Guard announced the names of the 35th through 54th cutters. The twenty namesakes are:

Angela McShan,

Daniel Tarr,

Edgar Culbertson,

Harold Miller,

Myrtle Hazard,

Oliver Henry,

Charles Moulthrope,

Robert Goldman,

Frederick Hatch,

Glen Harris,

Emlen Tunnell,

John Scheuerman,

Clarence Sutphin,

Pablo Valent,

Douglas Denman,

William Chadwick,

Warren Deyampert,

Maurice Jester,

John Patterson,

and William Sparling. The 35th cutter (ex-USCGC Oliver Berry) is to be named as Angela McShan since the 24th cutter (ex-USCGC Donald Horsley) was renamed as Oliver Berry.

In October 2019, the Coast Guard named the namesakes of cutters 55 through 64. They are:

Melvin Bell,

David Duren,

Florence Finch,

John Witherspoon,

Earl Cunningham,

Frederick Mann,

Olivia Hooker,

Vincent Danz,

Jeffrey Palazzo, and

Marvin Perrett.

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{{cite news

| url = https://www.houmatoday.com/story/business/2020/12/21/latest-bollinger-built-coast-guard-cutter-destined-middle-east/3999368001/

| title = Latest Bollinger-built Coast Guard cutter destined for Middle East

| work = Houma Today

| author = Kieth MaGill

| date = 2020-12-21

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}}

{{cite news

| url = https://www.houmatoday.com/story/business/2020/10/22/lockport-shipyards-latest-coast-guard-cutter-serve-overseas/3728411001/

| title = Lockport shipyard's latest Coast Guard cutter to serve overseas

| work = Houma Today

| author = Keith Magill

| date = 2020-10-22

| access-date = 2020-10-23

| quote = The Charles Moulthrope will be based in Manama, Bahrain, replacing a 110-foot Island Class Patrol Boat built by Bollinger 30 years ago. The new ship will support U.S. defense missions in southwest Asia, the Coast Guard’s largest overseas presence.

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{{cite news

| url = https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/february/two-birds-one-stone-new-patrol-craft-and-unmanned-surface

| title = Two Birds with One Stone: A New Patrol Craft and Unmanned Surface Vessel

| work = United States Naval Institute Proceedings

| author = Collin Fox

| date = February 2019

| access-date = 2020-02-20

| quote = The Navy should latch onto the Coast Guard’s WPC program to acquire a PC(R) that could also serve as a MDUSV development platform and, eventually, a MDUSV... A vessel based on the WPC would take advantage of the Coast Guard’s sunk development costs and production learning curve, while also leveraging multiyear procurement to achieve still greater cost savings.

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-big-ships-these-cyclone-patrol-boats-would-fight-navys-war-iran-124986

| title = Forget Big Ships: These Cyclone Patrol Boats Would Fight The Navy's War On Iran

| work = National Interest magazine

| author = David Axe

| date = 2020-02-20

| access-date = 2020-02-20

| quote = If the United States and Iran go to war in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy’s smallest warships could be the first to see combat.

}}

{{cite web

| url = https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/9_u.s._coast_guard.pdf#page=27

| title = Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Budget Overview, Fiscal Year 2021, Congressional Justification

| work = Department of Homeland Security

| date = 2020

| page = 27

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200211041517/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/9_u.s._coast_guard.pdf#page=27

| archive-date = 2020-02-11

| access-date = 2020-02-13

| url-status = live

| quote = The new robotic patrol boat could borrow the hull of the Coast Guard's 350-ton-displacement Sentinel-class cutter, Fox pointed out.

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20191119.aspx

| title = Surface Forces: Bad Decisions

| work = Strategy Page

| date = 2019-11-19

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191204225154/https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20191119.aspx

| archive-date = 2019-12-04

| access-date = 2019-11-19

| url-status = live

| quote = The Dutch design was selected in 2008 because in 2007, the Coast Guard was finally forced to admit defeat in its effort to build an earlier design for Fast Response Cutters. The shipbuilders (Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman) screwed up, big time. While the Coast Guard shares some of the blame, for coming up with new concepts that didn't work out, the shipbuilders are the primary culprits because they are, well, the shipbuilding professionals and signed off on the Coast Guard concepts. Under intense pressure from media, politicians, and the shame of it all, the Coast Guard promptly went looking for an existing (off-the-shelf) design and in a hurry. That had become urgent because of an earlier screw-up.

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.houmatoday.com/news/20191117/bollinger-delivers-coast-guard-cutter

|title = Bollinger delivers Coast Guard cutter

|work = Houma Today

|author = Mike Hill

|date = 2019-11-17

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191119125756/https://www.houmatoday.com/news/20191117/bollinger-delivers-coast-guard-cutter

|archive-date = 2019-11-19

|access-date = 2019-12-04

|url-status = live

|quote = Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards delivered the USCGC Daniel Tarr, the 36th fast response cutter, to the U.S. Coast Guard on Nov. 7 in Key West, Florida.

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/2011506/coast-guard-accepts-36th-fast-response-cutter/

| title = Coast Guard accepts 36th fast response cutter

| work = U.S. Coast Guard

| date = 2019-11-09

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191110012208/https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/Latest-Acquisition-News/Article/2011506/coast-guard-accepts-36th-fast-response-cutter/

| archive-date = 2019-11-10

| access-date = 2019-11-12

| url-status = live

| quote = The cutter will be the first of three planned FRCs stationed in Galveston, Texas.

}}

{{cite web

|url = https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/267d506

|title = ALCOAST 328/19 - Oct 2019 New Fast Response Cutters Named for Coast Guard Heroes

|work = U.S. Coast Guard

|date = 2019-10-23

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191023175919/https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/267d506

|archive-date = 2019-10-23

|access-date = 2019-11-07

|url-status = live

|quote = These namesakes include recipients of the Gold Lifesaving Medal, Silver Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal, and Medal of Freedom. These new cutters are scheduled for delivery starting in 2023 and will be named for the following people:

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.dvidshub.net/news/334438/uscgc-joseph-gerczak-wpc-1126-arrives-american-samoa-patrol

|title = USCGC Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126) arrives in American Samoa on patrol

|work = Dvidshub

|author = Sara Muir

|date = 2019-08-03

|location = Pago Pago

|access-date = 2019-08-05

|url-status = live

|quote = {{'}}It was a good transit, the longest we’ve conducted yet, nine days at sea and we’re proving the capabilities of these new cutters to operate over the horizon throughout the remote Pacific,{{'}} said Lt. James Provost, commanding officer of Joseph Gerczak.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190805151732/https://www.dvidshub.net/news/334438/uscgc-joseph-gerczak-wpc-1126-arrives-american-samoa-patrol

|archive-date = 2019-08-05

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.dvidshub.net/news/287463/feature-uscgc-oliver-berry-crew-sets-new-horizons-cutter-operations

|title = USCGC Oliver Berry crew sets new horizons for cutter operations

|work = Dvidshub

|author = Amanda Levasseur, Sara Muir

|date = 2018-08-01

|access-date = 2018-08-09

|quote = In July Oliver Berry's crew set a new milestone by deploying over the horizon to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The 4,400 nautical mile trip marked marking the furthest deployment of an FRC to date for the Coast Guard and is the first deployment of its kind in the Pacific.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180809090847/https://www.dvidshub.net/news/287463/feature-uscgc-oliver-berry-crew-sets-new-horizons-cutter-operations

|archive-date = 2018-08-09

|url-status = live

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{{cite news

|url = https://defpost.com/u-s-coast-guard-accepts-27th-fast-response-cutter-uscgc-richard-snyder/

|title = U.S. Coast Guard Accepts 27th Fast Response Cutter, USCGC Richard Snyder

|work = DefPost

|date = 2018-02-10

|access-date = 2018-02-10

|quote = USCGC Richard Snyder will be the first Sentinel-class cutter (FRC) stationed in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, and will be commissioned in April.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180211131517/https://defpost.com/u-s-coast-guard-accepts-27th-fast-response-cutter-uscgc-richard-snyder/

|archive-date = 2018-02-11

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/bollinger-delivers-cutter/

| title = Bollinger delivers latest fast response cutter to USCG

| publisher = WorkBoat magazine

| author = Ken Hocke

| date = 2017-04-21

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170422013705/https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/bollinger-delivers-cutter/

| archive-date = 2017-04-22

| access-date = 2017-04-21

| url-status = dead

| quote = Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La., has delivered the 154’x25’5″x9’6″ Benjamin Dailey to the Coast Guard, the 23rd fast response cutter (FRC).

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{{cite news

| url = https://www.marinelink.com/news/bollinger-delivers424437

| title = Bollinger Delivers USCGC Benjamin Dailey

| publisher = Marine Link

| author = Eric Haun

| date = 2017-04-20

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170421013953/https://www.marinelink.com/news/bollinger-delivers424437

| archive-date = 2017-04-21

| url-status = live

| quote = The Coast Guard took delivery of the 154-foot patrol craft on April 20, 2017 in Key West, Fla. The vessel’s commissioning is scheduled for July 4, 2017 in Pascagoula, Miss.

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{{cite news

| url = http://www.en.portnews.ru/news/237854/

| title = Bollinger delivers the 23rd FRC to USCG

| publisher = Port News

| date = 2017-04-21

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170422020139/http://www.en.portnews.ru/news/237854/

| archive-date = 2017-04-22

| url-status = live

| quote = 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.

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2017-04-12/first-alaska-first-west-coast

|title = A first for Alaska, a first for the West Coast

|newspaper = Juneau Empire

|author = Charles Michel

|date = 2017-04-12

|access-date = 2017-04-13

|quote = Today we usher in a new era for the Coast Guard in Alaska. At a ceremony in Ketchikan, Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick will officially enter the fleet...While we’re commissioning this Fast Response Cutter today, it is the first of six of its kind that will call Alaska home.

|author-link = Charles Michel

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170413153141/http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2017-04-12/first-alaska-first-west-coast

|archive-date = 2017-04-13

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/updates/frc022715.asp

| title = Acquisition Update: Coast Guard Reveals Names of FRCs 26-35

| publisher = US Coast Guard

| date = 2015-02-27

| access-date = 2017-03-25

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150305040404/https://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/updates/frc022715.asp

| archive-date = 2015-03-05

| url-status = dead

| quote = 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.

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170302/news/tt-coast-guard-in-837-million-drug-bust

|title = T&T Coast Guard in $837 million drug bust: ...fishing vessel intercepted off Suriname

|publisher = Trinidad Express

|author = Susan Mohammed

|date = 2017-03-02

|access-date = 2017-03-03

|quote = The crew of the Napier, which is based in Port Canaveral, Florida, towed the 70-foot (21-meter) fishing vessel, the Lady Michelle, to St. Vincent and four men on board from Guyana were taken to the U.S. Virgin Islands to face possible criminal charges. The Coast Guard took the cocaine to Puerto Rico and turned it over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170302175841/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170302/news/tt-coast-guard-in-837-million-drug-bust

|archive-date = 2017-03-02

|url-status = dead

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.marinelink.com/news/delivered-bailey-barco421825

|title = FRC Bailey Barco Delivered to the USCG

|publisher = Marine link

|author = Eric Haun

|date = 2017-02-08

|access-date = 2017-02-09

|quote = The U.S. Coast Guard has taken delivery of USCGC Bailey Barco on February 7, 2017 in Key West, Fla. The vessel is scheduled to be commissioned in Ketchikan, Alaska in June, 2017.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170208221439/http://www.marinelink.com/news/delivered-bailey-barco421825

|archive-date = February 8, 2017

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.houmatoday.com/business/20170208/local-shipyard-delivers-latest-coast-guard-cutter

|title = Bollinger delivers latest Coast Guard cutter

|newspaper = Houma Today

|date = 2017-02-08

|access-date = 2016-12-15

|quote = This vessel is named after Barco, who was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal on Oct. 7, 1901, for his heroic action to rescue the crew of the Jennie Hall, a schooner that had been grounded during a winter storm off Virginia Beach, Va.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170209073139/http://www.houmatoday.com/business/20170208/local-shipyard-delivers-latest-coast-guard-cutter

|archive-date = 2017-02-09

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20161119_Coast_Guard_to_get__game_changer__cutter_to_save_lives_and_catch_criminals.html

|title = Coast Guard to get 'game changer' cutter to save lives and catch criminals

|newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer

|author = Jacqueline L. Urgo

|date = 2016-11-19

|access-date = 2021-02-19

|quote = Although the cutter is far from luxurious, its crew quarters provide slightly more room and comfort than earlier models, with larger staterooms, more toilets and sinks, greater storage space, and DirecTV access in the mess areas.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161120004634/http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20161119_Coast_Guard_to_get__game_changer__cutter_to_save_lives_and_catch_criminals.html

|archive-date = 2016-11-20

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://curacaochronicle.com/region/dominican-republic-migrants-intercepted-heading-towards-puerto-rico/

|title = Dominican Republic Migrants Intercepted Heading Towards Puerto Rico

|publisher = Curaçao Chronicle

|date = 2016-03-09

|access-date = 2016-04-04

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160316174414/http://curacaochronicle.com/region/dominican-republic-migrants-intercepted-heading-towards-puerto-rico/

|archive-date = 2016-03-16

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://jacksonville.com/breaking-news/2015-09-29/story/us-coast-guard-seized-41m-drugs-caribbean-sea

|title = US Coast Guard seized $41M in drugs in Caribbean Sea

|publisher = Jacksonville Sentinel

|date = 2015-09-29

|access-date = 2016-04-04

|quote = The agency's cutter Richard Dixon responded and seized the vessel after suspects tossed four packages into the water.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160310134637/http://jacksonville.com/breaking-news/2015-09-29/story/us-coast-guard-seized-41m-drugs-caribbean-sea

|archive-date = 2016-03-10

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.thedailyherald.sx/regional/56004-dr-migrants-intercepted-heading-towards-puerto-rico

|title = DR migrants intercepted heading towards Puerto Rico

|publisher = The Daily Herald

|date = 2016-03-09

|access-date = 2016-04-04

|quote = The USCG cutter Richard Dixon repatriated 24 migrants to the Dominican Republic.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160311120339/https://www.thedailyherald.sx/regional/56004-dr-migrants-intercepted-heading-towards-puerto-rico

|archive-date = 2016-03-11

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2016/4/2/58775/US-Coast-Guard-rescues-14-Dominican-boatpeople

|title = US Coast Guard rescues 14 Dominican boatpeople

|newspaper = Dominican Today

|date = 2016-04-02

|access-date = 2016-04-04

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160423141559/http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2016/4/2/58775/US-Coast-Guard-rescues-14-Dominican-boatpeople

|archive-date = 2016-04-23

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2015/08/dod-101-drugs-thugs-and-the-coast-guard/

|title = DoD 101: Drugs, Thugs and the Coast Guard

|publisher = DoD News, Defense Media

|author = Cheryl Pellerin

|date = 2015-08-26

|location = Miami Beach

|access-date = 2016-04-11

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160411194723/http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2015/08/dod-101-drugs-thugs-and-the-coast-guard/

|archive-date = 2016-04-11

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2298918/cutter-bernard-c-webber-crew-offloads-17m-seized-cocaine-miami#.Vwv2zuArKVO

|title = Cutter Bernard C. Webber crew offloads $17M in seized cocaine in Miami

|publisher = Dvidshub

|author = Mark Barney

|date = 2015-11-20

|location = Miami Beach

|access-date = 2016-04-11

|quote = A Coast Guardsman offloads cocaine at Coast Guard Sector Miami Beach, Florida, Nov. 20, 2015.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160407112922/https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2298918/cutter-bernard-c-webber-crew-offloads-17m-seized-cocaine-miami#.Vwv2zuArKVO

|archive-date = 2016-04-07

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.d17.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2747466/

| title = Coast Guard Responding to Cargo Container Incident

| publisher = United States Coast Guard News

| date = 2015-12-06

| access-date = 2015-12-08

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/12/06/coast-guard-responds-to-overboard-cargo-containers/

|title = Coast Guard Responds To Overboard Cargo Containers

|work = CBS News

|date = 2015-12-06

|access-date = 2015-12-08

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208073101/http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/12/06/coast-guard-responds-to-overboard-cargo-containers/

|archive-date = 2015-12-08

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Coast-Guard-Seizes-Cocaine-and-Marijuana-2014-03-18/

|title = Coast Guard Seizes Cocaine and Marijuana

|publisher = Maritime Executive

|date = 2014-03-18

|access-date = 2014-03-19

|quote = Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge, a 154-foot Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter homeported at Sector Miami, offload approximately 1,500 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated wholesale value of $23 million, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Monday, March 17, 2014.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140319050239/http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Coast-Guard-Seizes-Cocaine-and-Marijuana-2014-03-18/

|archive-date = March 19, 2014

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://spacecoastdaily.com/2015/11/u-s-coast-guard-seizes-515-kilos-of-cocaine-in-operation-caribbean-venture/

| title = U.S. Coast Guard Seizes 515 Kilos of Cocaine In 'Operation Caribbean Venture'

| publisher = Space Coast Daily

| date = 2015-11-22

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151123154925/http://spacecoastdaily.com/2015/11/u-s-coast-guard-seizes-515-kilos-of-cocaine-in-operation-caribbean-venture/

| archive-date=2015-11-23

| url-status = live

| quote = 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.

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article50846860.html

| title = Details of cocaine bust near Dominican coast revealed

| newspaper = Miami Herald

| author = Alfonso Chardy

| date = 2015-12-20

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151221235207/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article50846860.html

| archive-date = 2015-12-21

| url-status = live

| quote = In this case, the interdiction operation involved the Coast Guard and the HNLMS Friesland, an offshore patrol vessel from the Royal Netherlands Navy.

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boat-thieves-lee-county-florida-lead-coast-guard-345-mile-n486601

|title = Suspected Boat Thieves in Lee County, Florida, Lead Coast Guard on 345-Mile Chase

|work = NBC News

|author = Alastair Jamieson

|date = 2015-12-28

|access-date = 2015-12-28

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151228122617/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boat-thieves-lee-county-florida-lead-coast-guard-345-mile-n486601

|archive-date = 2015-12-28

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/trio-nabbed-in-20-hour-high-speed-boat-chase/67-45867172

|title = Trio nabbed in 20-hour high-speed boat chase

|publisher = Fort Myers Press-News

|author = Michael Braun

|date = 2015-12-27

|access-date = 2015-12-28

|quote = A 20-hour high-speed boat chase that at times resembled a James Bond movie ended about 65 miles west of Cuba on Christmas Eve when the three suspects just gave up, law enforcement officials said.

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{{cite news

|url = http://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-cutter-paul-clark-repatriates-66-cuban-migrants/2013/09/13/

|title = Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark repatriates 66 Cuban migrants

|publisher = Coast Guard News

|date = 2013-09-13

|location = Miami, Florida

|access-date = 2013-09-13

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150318230909/http://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-cutter-paul-clark-repatriates-66-cuban-migrants/2013/09/13/

|archive-date = 2015-03-18

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/us-coast-guard-rescues-10-people-from-a-sinking-bo/nq3R6/

|title = U.S. Coast Guard rescues 10 people from a sinking boat off Freeport

|newspaper = Palm Beach Post

|author = Susan Salisbury

|date = 2016-04-10

|access-date = 2016-04-11

|quote = The 10 survivors are believed to be migrants trying to get the United States from the Bahamas.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160412023749/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/us-coast-guard-rescues-10-people-from-a-sinking-bo/nq3R6/

|archive-date = 2016-04-12

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20160308/ARTICLES/160309717

|title = Bollinger Shipyards delivers latest Coast Guard cutter

|newspaper = Houma Today

|date = 2016-03-08

|access-date = 2016-03-09

|quote = The 154-foot patrol craft is the 17th vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160310135553/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20160308/ARTICLES/160309717

|archive-date = 2016-03-10

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/post_47.html

| title = Bollinger delivers eighth Fast-Response Cutter to U.S. Coast Guard

| newspaper = New Orleans Times Picayune

| author = Jed Lipinski

| date = 2013-12-10

| location = Lockport, Louisiana

| access-date = 2013-12-11

| archive-date = 2013-12-11

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131211184305/http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/post_47.html

| url-status = live

| quote = The vessel was delivered to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, Fla., where the Coast Guard expects to commission it in March 2014.

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-US-Coast-Guard-repatriates-85-Cuban-migrants-28166.html

|title = US Coast Guard repatriates 85 Cuban migrants

|publisher = Caribbean News Now

|date = 2015-11-03

|access-date = 2015-11-03

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160423025821/http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-US-Coast-Guard-repatriates-85-Cuban-migrants-28166.html

|archive-date = 2016-04-23

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.marinelink.com/news/service-guards-eighth365536.aspx

| title = Coast Guard's Eighth FRC Enters Service

| publisher = Marine Link

| date = 2014-03-14

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140315024813/http://www.marinelink.com/news/service-guards-eighth365536.aspx

| archive-date = 2014-03-15

| url-status = live

| quote = Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton was commissioned into service March 8 at Coast Guard Sector Key West, Fla. The Sexton is the second of six Fast Response Cutters to be homeported in Key West, and the eighth vessel to be delivered through the Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class FRC recapitalization project.

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.marinelink.com/news/bollinger-delivers366108.aspx

| title = Bollinger Delivers 9th USCG Fast Response Cutter

| publisher = Marine Link

| date = 2014-03-28

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140328221142/http://www.marinelink.com/news/bollinger-delivers366108.aspx

| archive-date = 2014-03-28

| url-status = live

| quote = The Coast Guard took delivery on March 28, 2014 in Key West, Florida and is scheduled to commission the vessel in Key West, Florida during May, 2014.

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://freeport.nassauguardian.net/News/34-Cubans-apprehended-over-the-weekend

| title = 34 Cubans apprehended over the weekend

| publisher = The Freeport News

| author = Mia Whylly

| date = 2016-04-05

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160408113551/http://freeport.nassauguardian.net/News/34-Cubans-apprehended-over-the-weekend

| archive-date = 2016-04-08

| access-date = 2016-04-05

| url-status = usurped

| quote = The United States Coast Guard Vessel (USCG) William Flores brought 12 Cuban migrants to the Lucayan Harbour Friday, April 1 and handed them over to a team of officers headed by SIO (Senior Immigration Officer) Jerome Hutcheson.

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.keysnet.com/2015/10/10/505145/keys-based-coast-guard-cutter.html

| title = Keys-based Coast Guard cutter joined search for 'El Faro'

| publisher = Keysnet

| date = 2015-10-10

| access-date = 2016-04-11

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160419134212/http://www.keysnet.com/2015/10/10/505145/keys-based-coast-guard-cutter.html

| archive-date = 2016-04-19

| url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/19/cutter-charles-sexton-repatriates-39-cuban-migrants.html

|title = Cutter Charles Sexton Repatriates 39 Cuban Migrants

|publisher = Military Daily

|date = 2015-11-19

|access-date = 2015-11-20

|quote = 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."

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151121065109/http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/19/cutter-charles-sexton-repatriates-39-cuban-migrants.html

|archive-date = 2015-11-21

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/fast-response-cutters/

|title = Fast Response Cutters: Enhanced capability and national security delivered

|publisher = Defense Media Network

|author = Mark D. Faram

|date = 2013-05-09

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131009211255/http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/fast-response-cutters/

|archive-date = 2013-10-09

|access-date = 2014-08-23

|url-status = dead

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/voted-off-the-island-the-uscgs-deepwater-frc-program-03160/

| title = FRC Plan B: The Sentinel Class

| publisher = Defense Industry Daily

| date = 2014-05-02

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140707003537/http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/voted-off-the-island-the-uscgs-deepwater-frc-program-03160/

| archive-date = 2014-07-07

| access-date = 2014-04-03

| url-status = live

| quote = All of these boats will be named after enlisted Coast Guard heroes, who distinguished themselves in USCG or military service. The first 25 have been named, but only 8 have been commissioned...

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{{cite news

|url = http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Bollinger-Delivers-10th-Coast-Guard-FRC-2014-06-25

|title = Bollinger Delivers 10th Coast Guard FRC

|publisher = Maritime Executive

|date = 2014-06-25

|access-date = 2014-06-25

|quote = 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.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140626013216/http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Bollinger-Delivers-10th-Coast-Guard-FRC-2014-06-25

|archive-date = June 26, 2014

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9018:bollinger-delivers-frc-richard-dixon&Itemid=231

| title = Bollinger delivers FRC Richard Dixon

| publisher = Marine Log

| date = 2015-04-15

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150417104018/http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9018:bollinger-delivers-frc-richard-dixon&Itemid=231

| archive-date = 2015-04-17

| url-status = live

| quote = We are very pleased to announce the delivery of the latest FRC built by Bollinger, the Richard Dixon, to the Seventh Coast Guard District in Puerto Rico," said Bollinger's President and CEO, Ben Bordelon. "We are looking forward to honoring and celebrating the heroic acts of Richard Dixon at the vessel's commissioning.

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{{cite news

|url = http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9514:bollinger-delivers-frc-heriberto-hernandez&Itemid=223

|title = Bollinger delivers FRC Heriberto Hernandez

|publisher = Marine Log

|date = 2015-07-30

|access-date = 2015-08-05

|quote = The Coast Guard took delivery on July 30, 2015 in Key West, FL, and is scheduled to commission the vessel in Puerto Rico during October, 2015.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150804114438/http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9514:bollinger-delivers-frc-heriberto-hernandez&Itemid=223

|archive-date = August 4, 2015

|url-status = live

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{{cite news

|url = http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9934:bollinger-delivers-frc-joseph-napier&Itemid=230

|title = Bollinger delivers FRC Joseph Napier

|publisher = Marine Log

|date = 2015-10-20

|access-date = 2015-10-20

|quote = Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, LA, has delivered the Joseph Napier, the 15th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the United States Coast Guard. The Coast Guard took delivery on October 20, 2015 in Key West, Florida, and is scheduled to commission the vessel in Puerto Rico during January, 2016.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181210125033/https://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=9934:bollinger-delivers-frc-joseph-napier&Itemid=230

|archive-date = December 10, 2018

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Coast-Guard-s-newest-cutter-named-for-Kennedy-6574938.php

|url-access = subscription

|title = Coast Guard's newest cutter named for Kennedy High School hero

|newspaper = San Antonio Express-News

|author = Sig Christenson

|date = 2015-10-16

|access-date = 2015-10-16

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305142200/http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Coast-Guard-s-newest-cutter-named-for-Kennedy-6574938.php

|archive-date = 2016-03-05

|url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.janes.com/article/56888/us-coast-guard-accepts-16th-fast-response-cutter

| title = US Coast Guard accepts 16th fast response cutter

| publisher = Jane's Fighting Ships Yearbook 2015

| author = Grace Jean

| date = 2015-12-28

| location = Washington, DC

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151229210002/http://www.janes.com/article/56888/us-coast-guard-accepts-16th-fast-response-cutter

| archive-date = 2015-12-29

| url-status = live

| url-access = subscription

| quote = With six cutters operating out of Miami, Florida, and six based in Key West, plus the two in San Juan, the USCG has 14 FRCs in service.

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/updates/frc033015.asp

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403035034/http://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/updates/frc033015.asp

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 2015-04-03

| title = Acquisition Update: Coast Guard Commissions 12th Fast Response Cutter

| publisher = United States Coast Guard

| date = 2015-03-30

| access-date = 2016-02-27

| quote = The Coast Guard commissioned Isaac Mayo, the 12th fast response cutter and sixth to be based in Key West, Florida, March 28, 2015.

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{{cite news

|url = http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20171212-frc.html

|title = Coast Guard Aligns Names with Hull Numbers for its Sentinel-class FRCs

|work = Seapower magazine

|date = 2017-12-12

|location = Washington DC

|access-date = 2017-12-09

|quote = The U.S. Coast Guard has announced the names and corresponding hull numbers for its next 20 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs), each vessel being named for a deceased leader, trailblazer or hero of the Coast Guard and its predecessor services of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, the U.S. Lifesaving Service and the U.S. Lighthouse Service, according to a Dec. 12 Coast Guard release.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171213093140/http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20171212-frc.html

|archive-date = 2017-12-13

|url-status = dead

}}

{{cite news

|url=https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6761508/us-coast-guard-conducts-triple-commissioning

|title=US Coast Guard conducts triple commissioning

|work=Dvids

|date=29 July 2021

|location=Santa Rita, Guam

|publisher=Defense Visual Information Distribution Service

|access-date=6 July 2024

|quote=Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), offers remarks during a commissioning ceremony on U.S. Naval Base Guam July 29. The ceremony commissioned three new USCG sentinel-class fast response cutters stationed on Guam: USCG Cutter Myrtle Hazard, USCG Cutter Oliver Henry, and USCG Cutter Frederick Hatch.

}}

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| url = http://www.marinelog.com/IMAGESMMVII/sentinelinterior520.jpg

| title = deckplan of the USCGC Sentinel

| publisher = Marine Log

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100104060050/http://marinelog.com/IMAGESMMVII/sentinelinterior520.jpg

| archive-date = 2010-01-04

| url-status = dead

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{{Sentinel class cutter}}