USCGC Sea Devil
USCGC Sea Devil | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USCGC Sea Devil |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Homeport | Kings Bay, Georgia |
| Identification |
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| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat |
| Displacement | 91 long tons (92 t) |
| Length | 87 ft 0 in (26.5 m) |
| Beam | 19 ft 5 in (5.9 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 x MTU diesels |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range | 900 nmi (1,700 km) |
| Endurance | 5 days |
| Complement | 10 |
| Armament | 3 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns |
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USCGC Sea Devil is the 68th Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat to be built, and the first of four to be paid for by the US Navy. It is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. Her home port is Kings Bay, Georgia, where she and her sister ship Sea Fox are assigned to one of two Maritime Force Protection Units. Their sole mission is to escort the Navy's largest submarines, the nuclear-armed Ohio class, while in and near their moorings. When first commissioned, Sea Devil and Sea Fox were assigned to the same duty at the other Maritime Force Protection Unit at Naval Base Kitsap in Washington. They left Washington for Georgia to replace the decommissioned USCGC Sea Dragon and USCGC Sea Dog.
The submarines require an escort because, while they carry some of the most powerful weapons ever built, they do not mount weapons suitable to protect them from surface threats, like the speedboat that carried a bomb that damaged USS Cole.