USCGC Bernard C. Webber (WPC-1101)

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Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C. Webber underway
History
Name: USCGC Bernard C. Webber (WPC-1101)
Namesake: Bernard C. Webber
Operator: United States Coast Guard
Builder: Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Launched: April 2011
Commissioned: April 14, 2012
Homeport: Port of Miami, Florida
Status: in active service, as of 2012
General characteristics
Class & 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:
  • 2 × 4,300 kilowatts (5,800 shp)
  • 1 × 75 kilowatts (101 shp) bow thruster
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance:
  • 5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
  • Designed to be on patrol 2,500 hours per year
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB
Complement: 2 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:		 L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament:

The USCGC Bernard C. Webber (WPC-1101) is the first of the United States Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutters.[1] Like most of her sister ships, she replaced a 110 foot (34 m) Island-class patrol boat. The Bernard C. Webber, and the next five vessels in the class, the Richard Etheridge, the William Flores, the Robert Yered, the Margaret Norvell, and the Paul Clark, are all based in Miami, Florida.[2]

Operational history

The Bernard C. Webber was launched in April 2011.[3] She commenced her sea trials on November 27, 2011. She arrived in her homeport of Miami, Florida, on February 6, 2012.[4][5] She was commissioned on April 14, 2012, at the Port of Miami, Miami, Florida.

For a week in August 2015 the Bernard C. Webber was tasked to host some VIPs, and demonstrate to them the ability of the Coast Guard to protect the USA's borders.[6]

In November 2015 the Bernard C. Webber cooperated with the HNLMS Friesland in the interception of a large quantity of illicit drugs, off the coast of the Dominican Republic.[7][8][9]

On April 10, 2016, the Bernard C. Webber rescued ten individuals from a vessel that capsized off Freetown, Bahamas.[10] The ten individuals were adrift for about six hours, but none of them were injured. Since they were assessed to be migrants, trying to make their way to United States, they were transferred to the custody of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force.

Namesake

Like the other ships of her class the Bernard C. Webber is named after a heroic enlisted member of the Coast Guard.[1][11] Bernard C. Webber was coxswain of the 36-foot wooden Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500 that ventured out in 60-foot seas to rescue men from the stricken tanker SS Pendleton that had broken in two during a Winter storm off Chatham, MA in February 1952.[12] The rescue of the survivors of the shipwrecked Pendleton is considered one of the most daring rescues of the United States Coast Guard.[13]

The story of the Pendleton rescue has been made into a motion picture entitled The Finest Hours.

Motto

The ship's motto is ”Determination heeds no interference.”.[14]

References

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