Bollinger Delivers 12th USCG Fast Response Cutter
Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the Isaac Mayo, the United States Coast Guard’s (USCG) 12th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) on January 13, 2015 in Key West, Florida. The vessel is scheduled to be commissioned in March 2015.
The 154 foot patrol craft Isaac Mayo is the 12th vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program. Senior Coast Guard officials have described the FRC as an operational “game changer.”
To build the vessel, Bollinger used an in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708. According to the builder, the ship has a flank speed of 28 knots, state of the art command, control, communications and computer technology and a stern launch system for the vessel’s 26 foot cutter boat.
Each FRC is named for an enlisted Coast Guard hero who distinguished him or herself in the line of duty. This vessel is named after Coast Guard Hero, Isaac Mayo. In the spring of 1879 a raging snowstorm blanketed the shores of the Northeastern United States. The perilous seas and weather caused a three-masted schooner, the Sarah J. Fort to wreck on the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Mayo, a junior surfman at Life-Saving Station 7 displayed exemplary character during the disarray as he and his crew faced the storm to rescue the schooner’s sailors. Because of Mayo’s exemplary surfman and leadership skills throughout the challenging rescue, Mayo was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal on November 10, 1879.
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