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32 ft Transportable Port Security Boat (TPSB) Builders: Kvichak Marine Industries: Operators: United States Coast Guard: Preceded by: 25 ft Transportable Port Security Boat: General characteristics; Displacement: 11,306 lbs: Length: 9.95 metres (32 ft 8 in) Beam: 2.59 metres (8 ft 6 in) Draft: Min 1 ft 9 in (0.53 m), Max 3 ft (0.91 m) Propulsion
These boats replaced the Utility Boat-Large (40 feet) - Mark I, Mark IV, Mark V, and VI, which were also built by the Coast Guard's Curtis Bay Yard over the period 1950 to 1966. As of 2005 there were 172 operational boats. Beginning in 2008, these aging boats were retired and replaced with the Response Boat-Medium over a 6–10 year period.
Spar was able to secure a tow line on the fishing boat, but it broke in the heavy seas and high winds. The broken tow line wrapped around Spar's propeller, disabling the ship. She was towed back to Kodiak by a commercial tugboat. [14] In 2012 Spar was part of a large Coast Guard response to the drifting Kulluk drilling platform. [15]
The boat's hull and superstructure are constructed entirely from 5456 marine grade aluminum. [3] Designed with a hard chined deep "V" planing hull , [ 8 ] the 47′ MLB exceeds its hull speed . The frame is composed of 17 vertical bulkhead frames, each of which is welded to the deck and hull, and five of which are watertight.
The Coast Guard added their "racing stripe" and the words 'Coast Guard' to her otherwise unadorned white hull. In addition, the eagle figurehead on the bowsprit of the ship was replaced. The original eagle figurehead now resides on display in the U.S. Coast Guard Museum in Waesche Hall at the Coast Guard Academy.
[1] [3] [4] The first 95-foot hulls were laid down at the Coast Guard Yard in 1952 and were officially described as "seagoing patrol cutters". Because Coast Guard policy did not provide for naming cutters under 100 feet (30 m) at the time of their construction they were referred to by their hull number only and gained the Cape-class names in ...
The Defender-class boat, also called Response Boat–Small (RB-S) and Response Boat–Homeland Security (RB-HS), is a standard boat introduced by the United States Coast Guard in 2002. The boats serve a variety of missions, including search and rescue , port security and law enforcement duties and replaces a variety of smaller non-standard boats.
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.