USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)

For other ships with the same name, see USCGC Mackinaw and USCGC Mackinac.
USCGC Mackinaw
History
United States
BuilderMarinette Marine Corporation (MMC)
Laid downFebruary 09, 2004
LaunchedApril 2, 2005
CommissionedJune 10, 2006
HomeportCheboygan, Michigan[1]
Identification
General characteristics
Displacement3,500 tons
Length240 ft (73 m)
Beam58.5 ft (17.8 m)
Draft16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion
  • Integrated Main Propulsion & Electrical Plant
  • ABB Azipod - Fixed Pitch, 10’ diameter
  • 9,119 shp (6.8 MW)
Speed16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement9 Officers, 46 Enlisted
Armament
  • 2 x machine guns[2]
  • Various small arms
Capacity
  • 130,896 US gal (495 kl) (Diesel fuel)
  •  27,500 US gal (104 kl) (potable water)

USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) is a 240-foot (73 m) multi-purpose vessel with a primary mission as a heavy icebreaker specifically built for operations on the North American Great Lakes for the United States Coast Guard.[3] IMO number: 9271054.

Her larger precursor, the USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83), IMO number 6119534, had a 62-year career on the same waters prior to being decommissioned on June 10, 2006, and turned into a museum ship docked in Mackinaw City, Michigan.

Among the missions the current Mackinaw is capable of and tasked with as needed is buoy tending, law enforcement and interdiction, search and rescue, and environmental remediation response.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference homepage USCGC Mackinaw was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "USCGC MACKINAW (WLBB-30) Characteristics". www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil. United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Great Lakes Icebreaking (GLIB) Capability Replacement Project Fact Sheet" (PDF). February 2008. Retrieved February 14, 2016.