US Coast Guard receives fourth Sentinel-class patrol boat

The US Coast Guard (USCG) has taken delivery of the fourth Sentinel-class patrol boat or fast response cutter (FRC), Robert Yered, from Bollinger Shipyards in Key West, Florida, US.

Scheduled to be commissioned in late February 2013, the vessel has been named to honour an enlisted Coast Guard, engineman first class Robert Yered, who courageously performed during military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam.

Capable of cruising at a speed of 28k, the 46.93m-long cutter boat features command, control, communications and computer technology and a stern launch system.

Being built under the Deepwater programme of the USCG, the Robert Yered craft has been developed based on in-service parent craft design of the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708.

Sentinel-class cutters will be used by the USCG to conduct a range of missions which include port and coastal security, marine safety, marine environmental protection, fishery patrols, drug and illegal migrant interdiction, search and rescue, and national-defence operations.

The boat’s command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) equipment are fully interoperable with the USCG’s existing and future units as well as partners in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS).