USCGC Paul Clark (WPC-1106)
Paul Clark underway.
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| Name: | USCGC Paul Clark |
| Namesake: | Paul Clark |
| Operator: | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder: | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched: | January 13, 2012 |
| Acquired: | May 18, 2013 |
| Commissioned: | August 24, 2013 |
| Homeport: | Miami, Florida |
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| Status: | in active service |
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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) |
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| 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 Paul Clark (WPC-1106) is the sixth Sentinel-class cutter. Like the previous five vessels she is homeported in Miami, Florida. She was delivered to the Coast Guard, for testing, on May 18, 2013.
On September 13, 2013 the vessel repatriated 66 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas. The migrants had been intercepted in four separate operations over the preceding days. Smaller vessels had intercepted four different migrant vessels. The Coast Guard Public Affairs Office asserted that their interception of the migrant vessels saved lives because navigation between Cuba and Florida is so dangerous. The migrants were transferred to Paul Clark for repatriation to Cuba.
The vessel is named after Paul Leaman Clark, who served as a fireman in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Clark was staffing a landing craft during a large assault on a beach in French North Africa when the craft's two other crew members were wounded by a Luftwaffe fighter. Clark took command of the craft, took the wounded crew members to a Navy ship for medical care and then returned to his duties as a beachmaster, directing disembarkation activity.
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