USCGC Isaac Mayo is a Sentinel-class cutter homeported in Key West, Florida.[1][3] She is the twelfth Sentinel class to be delivered, and the sixth of six to be assigned to Key West.
 USCGC Isaac Mayo
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Namesake | Isaac Mayo |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched | January 13, 2015 |
| Acquired | January 13, 2015[1] |
| Commissioned | March 28, 2015[2] |
| Homeport | Key West, FL |
| Identification |
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| Motto | The will to serve, courage to protect |
| Status | in active service |
| Badge | _CoA.jpg) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sentinel-class cutter |
| Displacement | 353 long tons (359 t) |
| Length | 46.8 m (154 ft) |
| Beam | 8.11 m (26.6 ft) |
| Depth | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Endurance |
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| Boats & landing craft carried | 1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB |
| Complement | 2 officers, 20 crew |
| Sensors and processing systems | L-3 C4ISR suite |
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Like her sister ships, she is equipped for coastal security patrols, interdiction of drug and people smugglers, and search and rescue. Like the smaller Marine Protector class she is equipped with a stern launching ramp.[4] The ramp allows the deployment and retrieval of her high speed water-jet powered pursuit boat without first coming to a stop. She is capable of more than 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) and armed with a remote controlled 25 millimetres (0.98 in) M242 Bushmaster autocannon; and four crew-served Browning M2 machine guns.
Operational history
editOn April 4, 2016, Isaac Mayo intercepted a small boat with twenty-two Cuban refugees on board.[5] The refugees had gone off course, and had entered Bahamas territory.
Namesake
editShe is named after Isaac Mayo, who served a surfman at a lifeboat station on Cape Cod.[3][6] Mayo was an employee of the United States Life-Saving Service, one of the precursor services that were amalgamated into the Coast Guard.
References
edit- ^ a b "Acquisition Update: 12th Fast Response Cutter Delivered To Coast Guard" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
- ^ "Coast Guard commissions Key West's sixth fast response cutter". Coast Guard News. 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
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Bob Lind (2016-02-25). "Coast Guard cutter named after ND farmer who was also East Coast seaman". Archived from the original on 2016-02-28. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
In March 2015, a Coast Guard cutter named Isaac Mayo was commissioned in Key West, Fla. It was named for a man who had two widely different jobs in two widely different areas: He was a seaman on the Atlantic Ocean and a farmer in North Dakota.
- ^ Alfonso Chardy (2012-10-18). "Coast Guard unveils its newest cutter; base will be Miami Beach". Miami Herald. Miami, Florida. Archived from the original on 2014-05-13.
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Mia Whylly (2016-04-05). "34 Cubans apprehended over the weekend". The Freeport News. Archived from the original on 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
"Early yesterday morning U.S. officials on-board USCG Cutter Isaac Mayo handed over an additional 22 Cuban migrants to Bahamas Immigration officers at the Lucayan Harbour," informed the local immigration officer.
- ^ Stephanie Young (2010-10-27). "Coast Guard Heroes". United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
