USCGC John F. McCormick
 USCGC John F. McCormick visits the Columbia River, on her way to her home port in Alaska.
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| Name: | John F. McCormick |
| Namesake: | John F. McCormick |
| Operator: | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder: | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Acquired: | 13 December 2016 |
| Commissioned: | 12 April 2017 |
| Homeport: | Ketchikan, Alaska |
| Identification: | WPC-1121 |
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| Class and type: | Sentinel-class cutter |
| Displacement: | 353 long tons (359 t) |
| Length: | 46.8 m (154 ft) |
| Beam: | 8.11 m (26.6 ft) |
| Depth: | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
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| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range: | 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) |
| Endurance: | 5 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB |
| Complement: | 2 officers, 20 crew |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
L-3 C4ISR suite |
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USCGC John F. McCormick (WPC-1121) is the United States Coast Guard's 21st Sentinel-class cutter, and the first to be stationed in Alaska, where homeported at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan.
The vessel's manufacturer, Bollinger Shipyards, of Lockport, Louisiana, delivered the ship to the Coast Guard on December 13, 2016, for her acceptance trials, and then John F. McCormick was commissioned on April 12, 2017 in Ketchikan, Alaska.
The Sentinel-class cutters are lightly armed patrol vessels with a crew of approximately two dozen sailors, capable of traveling almost 3,000 nautical miles, on five day missions. The cutter is a multi-mission vessel intended to perform law enforcement, search and rescue, fisheries and environmental protection, and homeland security tasks. Houma Today quoted Ben Bordelon, Bollinger's CEO, that John F. McCormick will ""assist in defending our nation's interests in the Alaskan maritime region.""
On March 12, 2017, John F. McCormick stopped in Astoria, Oregon, on its way to its commissioning in Ketchikan. The Coast Guard invited Astoria residents to tour the vessel. The Daily Astorian reported that the Coast Guard was considering stationing two Sentinel-class cutters in either Astoria or Newport, Oregon.
The vessel arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska on March 17, 2017. The Ketchikan fireboat, and smaller coast guard vessels, escorted her to her moorings. She was commissioned on April 12, 2017. Five other Sentinel-class cutters will be based in Alaska.
Charles Michel, the Coast Guard's Vice Commandant, attended the vessel's commissioning ceremony on April 12, 2017. He published an op-ed in the Juneau Empire celebrating the improvements the cutter offered over eealier models. He explained how important the cutter, the five sister ships that will join her patroling Alaska's water, will be for the Alaskan economy.
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