USCGC John McCormick visits the Columbia River, on her way to her home port in Alaska.
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Name | John McCormick |
Namesake | John F. McCormick |
Operator | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
Launched | December 13, 2016 |
Acquired | December 13, 2016[1] |
Commissioned | April 12, 2017[2] |
Homeport | Ketchikan, Alaska |
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Motto | Stewards of the last frontier |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
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) |
Propulsion |
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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 McCormick (WPC-1121) is the United States Coast Guard's 21st Sentinel-class cutter, and the first to be stationed in Alaska, where she is homeported at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan.[3]
The vessel's manufacturer, Bollinger Shipyards, of Lockport, Louisiana, delivered the ship to the Coast Guard on December 13, 2016, for her acceptance trials,[1][3] and then John McCormick was commissioned on April 12, 2017 in Ketchikan, Alaska.[2]
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