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Home» News»US Coast Guard commissions 33rd Fast Response Cutter “Joseph Doyle”
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The US Coast Guard commissioned the 33rd fast response cutter (FRC), Joseph Doyle, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 8. The cutter is the seventh FRC to be stationed in San Juan.
US Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Doyle’s crew mans the rail during the ship’s commissioning ceremony in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 10, 2019 (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Erik Villa Rodriguez)

US Coast Guard commissions 33rd Fast Response Cutter “Joseph Doyle”

The US Coast Guard commissioned the 33rd fast response cutter (FRC), Joseph Doyle, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 8. The cutter is the seventh FRC to be stationed in San Juan.

Nathan Gain 11 Jun 2019

By the USCG Acquisition Directorate Press Office

The namesake of the cutter, Joseph Doyle, was known as one of the U.S. Life-Saving Service’s most distinguished surfmen. He was keeper of the Charlotte, New York, Lifesaving Station for 17 years and received the Gold Lifesaving Medal for leading two heroic rescues in the fall of 1878.

FRCs have a maximum speed of over 28 knots, a range of 2,500 nautical miles and an endurance of at least five days. The ships are designed for multiple missions, including drug and migrant interdiction; ports, waterways and coastal security; fishery patrols; search and rescue; and national defense. They feature advanced command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment; over-the-horizon cutter boat deployment to reach vessels of interest; and improved habitability and seakeeping.

The US Coast Guard has ordered 50 of the cutters to date. Thirty-three are in service: 12 in Florida; seven in Puerto Rico; four in California; and two each in Alaska, New Jersey, Mississippi, Hawaii and North Carolina. Future FRC homeports include Galveston, Texas; Santa Rita, Guam; Astoria, Oregon; and Kodiak, Seward and Sitka, Alaska.

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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