Sentinel-class cutter

Sentinel-class cutter
	The USCGC Benjamin Bottoms in San Francisco
Class overview
Name	Sentinel class
Operators	United States Coast Guard
Planned	66
Completed	54
Active	53
General characteristics
Type	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	2 × 4,300 kW (5,800 shp) MTU diesel engines; 1 × 75 kW (101 shp) bow thruster;
Speed	28+ knots
Endurance	5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi); Designed to be on patrol 2,500 hours per year;
Boats & landing ; craft carried	1 × Cutter Boat – Over the Horizon – Jet-drive
Complement	4 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and ; processing systems	L-3 C4ISR suite; AN/SPS-78 surface search and navigation radar; AN/SPS-50 surface search radar; RADA RPS-42 MHR air search radar; AN/APX-123(V)1 IFF (ship automation provided by MTU Callosum);
Armament	1 × Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm Machine Gun System; 4 × crew-served Browning M2 machine guns;

The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. At 154 feet (46.8 m), it is similar to, but larger than, the 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era Island-class patrol boats that it replaces. Up to 66 vessels are to be built by the Louisiana-based firm Bollinger Shipyards, using a design from the Netherlands-based Damen Group, with the Sentinel design based on the company's Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel. The Department of Homeland Security's budget proposal to Congress, for the Coast Guard, for 2021, stated that, in addition to 58 vessels to serve the Continental US, they requested an additional six vessels for its portion of Patrol Forces Southwest Asia.

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