Sentinel-class cutter

Sentinel-class cutter
The USCGC Benjamin Bottoms in San Francisco
Class overview
NameSentinel class
OperatorsUnited States Coast Guard
Planned67 (possibly up to 71)
Completed57
Active55
Retired1
General characteristics
TypeCutter
Displacement353 long tons (359 t)
Length46.8 m (154 ft)
Beam8.11 m (26.6 ft)
Depth2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion
Speed28+ knots
Endurance
  • 5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
  • Designed to be on patrol 2,500 hours per year
Boats & landing
craft carried		1 × Cutter Boat – Over the Horizon – Jet-drive
Complement4 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems
  • L-3 C4ISR suite
  • AN/SPS-78 surface search and navigation radar
  • AN/SPS-50 surface search radar
  • RADA RPS-42 MHR air search radar
  • AN/APX-123(V)1 IFF (ship automation provided by MTU Callosum)
Armament1 × Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm Machine Gun System (and 4 × crew-served Browning M2 machine guns on some cutters)

The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter or FRC due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program.[2][3][4] At 154 feet (46.8 m), it is similar to, but larger than, the 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era Island-class patrol boats that it replaces. Up to 71 vessels are to be built by the Louisiana-based firm Bollinger Shipyards, using a design from the Netherlands-based Damen Group, with the Sentinel design based on the company's Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel. The Department of Homeland Security's budget proposal to Congress, for the Coast Guard, for 2021, stated that, in addition to 58 vessels to serve the Continental US, they requested an additional six vessels for its portion of Patrol Forces Southwest Asia.[5]

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  3. ^ Christopher P. Cavas (September 30, 2009). "U.S. Coast Guard Chooses New Patrol Boat". Defense News. Archived from the original on May 23, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
  4. ^ "Fast Response Cutter (FRC)". Integrated Deepwater System Program. Archived from the original on June 3, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2007.
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