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The Coast Guard's 47-foot primary heavy-weather boat used for search and rescue as well as law enforcement and homeland security. [14] Response Boat – Medium: 45' The Coast Guard has signed a multi-year contract for 180 Response Boat – Medium (RB-M) boats that were delivered starting in 2008 to replace the 41′ UTB boats.
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
The 47-foot MLB is the standard lifeboat of the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The 47′ MLB is the successor to the 44′ MLB. [5] At Station Chatham where the new 47-foot boat would draw too much to get over the bar, the 42-foot Near Shore Lifeboat was designed to replace the 44' MLB.
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.
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.
The ship carries a cutter boat on davits. She was originally equipped with a CB-M boat which was replaced in the mid-2010s with a CB-ATON-M boat. This was built by Metal Shark Aluminum Boats and was estimated to cost $210,000. [15] The boat is 18 feet (5.5 m) long and are equipped with a Mercury Marine inboard/outboard diesel engine. [16]
A separate Coast Guard contract built two additional patrol boats for the Yemen Coast Guard. [7] The Marine Protector class replaced the 82-foot Point class, which had smaller accommodations and had to stop to deploy its pursuit inflatable boat via crane. The last Point-class cutter was decommissioned in 2003.
The Active-class patrol boat was one of the most useful and long-lasting classes of United States Coast Guard cutters. Of the 35 built in the 1920s, 16 were still in service during the 1960s. Of the 35 built in the 1920s, 16 were still in service during the 1960s.