USCGC Margaret Norvell, delivered to the USCG on March 21, 2013, and commissioned June 1, 2013.
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Name | USCGC Margaret Norvell |
Namesake | Margaret Norvell |
Operator | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
Launched | January 13, 2013 |
Acquired | March 21, 2013[1] |
Commissioned | June 1, 2013[2] |
Homeport | Miami, Florida |
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Motto | True steady unfailing |
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 × Cutter Boat – Over the Horizon RHIB |
Complement | 4 officers, 20 crew |
Sensors and processing systems | L-3 C4ISR suite |
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USCGC Margaret Norvell (WPC-1105) is the fifth Sentinel-class cutter, based at Miami, Florida.[3][4] She was launched on January 13, 2012, and delivered to the Coast Guard on March 21, 2013.[1][5][6][7] She was commissioned on June 1, 2013.[2][8][9] She was commissioned at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, near where her namesake, Margaret Norvell, staffed a lighthouse for decades.
The Key News reported that Margaret Norvell was in Key West on April 2, 2013, finishing her outfitting.[10]
The first six FRCs for District 7 will be homeported in Miami; the next six in Key West; and the remaining six in Puerto Rico.
The Coast Guard took delivery March 21, 2013 in Key West, Florida and is scheduled to commission the vessel in New Orleans, Louisiana in June, 2013.
Monday's announcement by Chris Bollinger, executive vice president of new construction, says the Margaret Norvell was delivered last week to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, Florida, and will be stationed at USCG Sector Miami. It will be commissioned in New Orleans in June.
The 154 foot patrol craft 'Margaret Norvell' is the fifth vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program. To build the FRC, Bollinger Shipyards used a proven, in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708.
The Miami-bound Margaret Norvell is in Key West right now being outfitted, Hagwood said.