USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102)
Pre-commissioning photo of the future
USCGC Richard Etheridge, moving to another mooring as her final equipment is added. |
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| Name: | USCGC Richard Etheridge |
| Namesake: | Richard Etheridge |
| Operator: | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder: | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched: | August 18, 2011 |
| Acquired: | May 26, 2012 |
| Commissioned: | August 3, 2012 |
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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) |
| 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 Richard Etheridge is the second of the United States Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutters. Like most of her sister ships she will replace a 110-foot (34 m) Island-class patrol boat. Richard Etheridge was launched in August 2011.
The vessel was officially delivered to the Coast Guard on May 26, 2012, at Key West, Florida, and was commissioned into service in Port Everglades, Florida, on August 3, 2012.
Richard Etheridge, and the first and third vessels in the class, Bernard C. Webber, and William Flores, will all be based in Miami, Florida.
Like the other ships of her class, Richard Etheridge is named after an enlisted member of the Coast Guard.
On March 18, 2014, Richard Etheridge landed 1,500 pounds (680 kg) of illicit drugs captured as part of Operation Martillo.
Richard Etheridge is named after Coast Guardsman Richard Etheridge, the first African-American to command a life-saving station. Etheridge led the Pea Island Lifesaving Station crew of six in a daring rescue operation that saved the entire crew of the schooner E.S. Newman, which had become grounded in a treacherous storm in 1896.
The Sentinel-class cutters were designed to replace the shorter 110 feet (34 m) Island-class patrol boats.Richard Etheridge is with a remote-control 25 mm and four, crew-served M2HB .50-caliber machine guns. It has a bow thruster for maneuvering in crowded anchorages and channels. It also has small underwater fins for coping with the rolling and pitching caused by large waves. It are equipped with a stern launching ramp, like the Marine Protector class and the eight failed expanded Island-class cutters. It has a complement of twenty-two crew members. Like the Marine Protector class, and the cancelled extended Island-class cutters, the Sentinel-class cutters deploy the Short Range Prosecutor rigid-hulled inflatable (SRP or RHIB) in rescues and interceptions. According to Marine Log, modifications to the Coast Guard vessels from the Stan 4708 design include an increase in speed from 23 to 28 knots (43 to 52 km/h; 26 to 32 mph), fixed-pitch rather than variable-pitch propellers, stern launch capability, and watertight bulkheads.
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