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View of the base from a cruise ship in May 2016. Coast Guard Base Ketchikan is a major shore installation of the United States Coast Guard located in Ketchikan, Alaska.The base is a homeport for two Sentinel-class cutters and a buoy tender, and is the only Coast Guard dry dock in the state.
USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) was a cutter of the United States Coast Guard, homeported in Ketchikan, Alaska.She was originally USS Shackle (ARS-9), a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the United States Navy for service in World War II.
The vessel arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska on March 17, 2017. [8] [9] The Ketchikan fireboat and smaller Coast Guard vessels escorted her to her moorings. She was commissioned on April 12, 2017. [10] Five other Sentinel-class cutters will be based in Alaska, including the USCGC Bailey T. Barco in Ketchikan.
After her launch and sea trials, Anthony Petit sailed down the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, and through the Panama Canal to reach Ketchikan, Alaska, her homeport for her entire career. She arrived in January 2000. [15] The ship is stationed at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan. She replaced USCGC Planetree at this station. [16]
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across several Chinese military ships in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. The ...
USCGC Bailey Barco (WPC-1122) is the United States Coast Guard's 22nd Sentinel-class cutter, and the second to be stationed in Alaska, where she was homeported at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan. [3] [4] The vessel's manufacturer, Bollinger Shipyards, of Lockport, Louisiana, delivered the ship to the Coast Guard on February 7, 2017, for her ...
The United States Coast Guard maintains a large shore installation, Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, south of the downtown area, which serves as a homeport to three cutters and as a regional maintenance base for Alaska. According to the U.S. Postal Service, one of Ketchikan's two zip codes, 99950, is the highest-numbered in the United States. [26]
Coast Guard Station number Reference Coast Guard Station Juneau: Juneau: Mid-1950s Active No N/A 17th Unknown [411] Coast Guard Station Ketchikan: Ketchikan: Unknown Unknown Unknown [412] Coast Guard Station Nome: Nome: 1905 1949 Yes 305 [413] Coast Guard Station Valdez: Valdez: 2004 Active No N/A Unknown [414]