USCGC Richard Etheridge
Pre-commissioning photo of the future USCGC Richard Etheridge, moving to another mooring as her final equipment is added. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USCGC Richard Etheridge |
| Namesake | Richard Etheridge |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched | August 18, 2011 |
| Acquired | May 26, 2012 |
| Commissioned | August 3, 2012 |
| Identification |
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| Motto | In behalf of humanity |
| 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 Richard Etheridge is the second of the United States Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutters. Like most of her sister ships she replaced a 110-foot (34 m) Island-class patrol boat. Richard Etheridge was launched in August 2011.
The vessel was officially delivered to the Coast Guard on May 26, 2012, at Key West, Florida, and was commissioned into service in Port Everglades, Florida, on August 3, 2012.
Richard Etheridge, and the first and third vessels in the class, Bernard C. Webber, and William Flores, are all based in Miami, Florida.
Like the other ships of her class, Richard Etheridge is named after an enlisted member of the Coast Guard.