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USCGC Isaac Mayo (WPC 1112)

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Namesake
  
Isaac Mayo

Commissioned
  
March 28, 2015

Class and type
  
Sentinel-class cutter

Launched
  
20 October 2015

Acquired
  
January 13, 2015

Status
  
in active service

Displacement
  
353 long tons (359 t)

Length
  
47 m


Builder
  
Bollinger Shipyards, L.L.C.

USCGC Isaac Mayo is a Sentinel-class cutter homeported in Key West, Florida. She is the twelfth Sentinel class to be delivered, and the sixth of six to be assigned to Key West.

Contents

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. 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

On April 4, 2016, Isaac Mayo intercepted a small boat with twenty-two Cuban refugees on board. The refugees had gone off course, and had entered Bahamas territory.

Namesake

She is named after Isaac Mayo, who served a surfman at a lifeboat station on Cape Cod. Mayo was an employee of the United States Lifeboat Service, one of the precursor services that were amalgamated into the Coast Guard.

References

USCGC Isaac Mayo (WPC-1112) Wikipedia