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.
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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. 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.