Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Utility Boat [66] CG-44404: United States: New Jersey: Cape May: United States. 1972 44 MLB class: Motor Life Boat Brilliant: United States: Connecticut: Mystic: United States: 1932 Auxiliary schooner [67] USCGC Acacia: United States: Michigan: Manistee: United States: 1944 Class C (Iris) USCG seagoing buoy tender: USCGC Alert: United States ...
The Response Boat – Medium (RB-M) is a 45-foot (14 m) utility boat used by the United States Coast Guard. It is a replacement for the Coast Guard's retired fleet of 41-foot (12 m) utility boats (UTB), which had been in use by the Coast Guard since the 1970s. On June 21, 2006 the USCG awarded the RB-M contract to Marinette Marine of Marinette ...
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.
First production 47' MLB, CG-47206, practicing near the mouth of the Columbia River with students from the National Motor Lifeboat School (2011) Textron Marine & Land Systems was awarded the prototype construction contract in 1988 [7] and the first prototype was assigned hull number CG-47200, entering service in 1990, followed by the pre-production boats (CG-47201 through CG-47205), which were ...
Following the Coast Guard custom in place in 1960 of not naming vessels under 100 feet in length, the first 44 Point-class patrol boats were only identified by their hull number using the scheme of WPB-823xx, where 82 was the design length of the hull. [2]
The USCG 65' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the United States Coast Guard for search and rescue, law enforcement, aids-to-navigation work and light icebreaking. The tugs are capable of breaking 18 in (0.46 m) of ice with propulsion ahead and 21 in (0.53 m) of ice backing and ramming. [ 2 ]
The Coast Guard built the first of version these vessels in 1929 (Type "T"), and retired the last active version (Type "TRS", built from 1937–1956), in 1987 (CG-36535 at Coast Guard Station Depoe Bay); starting from the 1960s, they were replaced by 44-foot motor lifeboats with steel hulls.