USCGC John McCormick
USCGC John McCormick visits the Columbia River, on her way to her home port in Alaska. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | John McCormick |
| Namesake | John F. McCormick |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched | December 13, 2016 |
| Acquired | December 13, 2016 |
| Commissioned | April 12, 2017 |
| Homeport | Ketchikan, Alaska |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Stewards of the last frontier |
| Status | in active service |
| Badge | |
| 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 |
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| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range | 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) |
| Endurance | 5 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB |
| Complement | 2 officers, 20 crew |
| Sensors & processing systems | L-3 C4ISR suite |
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USCGC John McCormick (WPC-1121) is the United States Coast Guard's 21st Sentinel-class cutter, and the first to be stationed in Alaska, where she is homeported at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan.
The vessel's manufacturer, Bollinger Shipyards, of Lockport, Louisiana, delivered the ship to the Coast Guard on December 13, 2016, for her acceptance trials, and then John McCormick was commissioned on April 12, 2017 in Ketchikan, Alaska.