Vessel Profiles – Page 5 – Pacific Maritime Magazine

09 Oct

USCG Cutter Munro Returns from Patrol

Sarah SpanglerNews, Vessel Profiles

After two months and 12,500 miles, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro crew members recently came back from patrolling in support of Operation North Pacific Guard, an effort to enforce U.S. fisheries international law and stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. The Cutter Munro crew boarded 11 fishing vessels for inspection and discovered 14 possible violations, including serious instances on three Chinese-flagged squid fishing vessels. “Following these boardings, nearly the entire fleet of 31 vessels stopped fishing and fled hundreds of nautical miles west across the Pacific Ocean, avoiding further inspection,” according to the agency. “The violations detected and information gathered during this year’s…

25 Sep

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active Returns to Port Angeles

Sarah SpanglerNews, Vessel Profiles

After 56 days and more than 7,300 miles on patrol, crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active recently came back from deployment to their Port Angeles home port, the agency announced this month. The 210-foot Active patrolled the Straits of Juan de Fuca and the Oregon and Washington coasts and boarded more than 40 commercial fishing vessels as part of Operation Pacific Fortune. The crew teamed with the Coast Guard afloat training office in Everett for training, including more than 96 drills. They trained to react to fires, flooding, towing disabled vessels and a number of other contingencies.…

22 Sep

Cutter Oliver Henry Delivered to Coast Guard

Sarah SpanglerNews, Vessel Profiles

Over the summer, the U.S. Coast Guard received its latest Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC), the Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Henry (WPC-1140), from Bollinger Shipyards. The 154-foot cutter, which is in Florida for pre-commissioning trials and maintenance, is set to arrive in Santa Rita, Guam, later this year, the agency said.. “The fast response cutters are a real game changer here in the Pacific for the Coast Guard,” said Lt. Cmdr. Jessica Conway, the Coast Guard 14th District’s patrol boat manager. “Already the FRCs stationed here in Hawaii are conducting longer missions over greater distances than the older patrol boats…

11 Sep

USCG Cutter Munro Returns from Three-month Duty

Sarah SpanglerNews, Vessel Profiles

After three months and 15,000 miles, crew members of the 418-foot Legend-class national security cutter U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro came back to its Alameda homeport Monday. During that time, the crew was in the Bering Sea for 37 days, making sure that mandates for fisheries were being followed between Alaska and the U.S. and Russia maritime border. They boarded 11 commercial fishing vessels as part of U.S. fishery and safety enforcement, patrolled the Aleutian Islands and the maritime border to ensure that foreign fishing vessels did not enter U.S. waters and participated in a joint border patrol with a Russian Border…

01 Jul

Diversified Launches Second Tug for Sause Brothers

Pacific MaritimeVessel Profiles

By Peter Marsh When Sause Brothers launched the first two 128-foot by 35-foot Mikiona-class tugs in 2006 and 2007, they attracted attention as a 21st century version of the traditional straight shaft boat, designed by Sause engineers to combine a classic American hull shape with the first pair of German MTU 4000 diesels to be installed on a West Coast tug. They were also one of the first operators to install Rapp Hydema towboat winches, and completed the specification with their own twin-vane rudders and 16-inch, four-pin system – both in the company’s own shipyard in Coos Bay, Southern Oregon…

01 Jun

First of Four Foss Tier 4 Tugs Delivered by Nichols Brothers

Pacific MaritimeVessel Profiles

By Peter Marsh When Foss Maritime announced in 2018 that it had chosen Nichols Brothers Boat Builders on Whidbey Island, Washington to build four 100-foot Tier 4 tugs, with an option for six more, it represented the single largest order of its type for a NW yard in more than 20 years, and a major upgrade in Foss’ ship-handling fleet on the West Coast. The naval architects Jensen Maritime, MTU engine supplier Pacific Power Group, and winch manufacturer Markey are all based in Seattle, demonstrating Washington state’s leading position in this rapidly-evolving sector of commercial boatbuilding in North America. The…

01 Jun

New Compact Tug for Seattle Harbor Work –
Western Towboat delivers the Tier 3 Mariner

Pacific MaritimeVessel Profiles

Western Towboat recently took delivery of a new tugboat from its in-house construction facility on the north side of Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal. The 79-foot Mariner is the 19th tug built by Western Towboat, and the first in more than a decade to be earmarked for harbor service. The company, founded by Robert Shrewsbury Sr. in 1948, began with one tug in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. The company began building its own tugboats in 1982, and built the first long-haul tug on the West Coast with ASD drives – the 72-foot Westrac, in 1987. The business has since grown to…

01 Jun

Ninth National Security Cutter Christened

Pacific MaritimeNews, Vessel Profiles

The US Coast Guard’s ninth Legend-class national security cutter (NSC), the future USCGC Stone (WMSL-758), was christened at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding facility at Pascagoula, Mississippi in late February. The 418-foot by 54-foot vessel, which has a full load displacement of 4,500 tons and a top speed of 28 knots, is to be delivered next year.

29 May

USCG Cutter Seizes $53.5 Million Worth of Drugs from Vessel

Sarah SpanglerNews, Vessel Profiles

By Karen Robes Meeks Crew members of the US Coast Guard Cutter James recently confiscated more than 3,100 pounds of cocaine worth $53.5 million after boarding a low-profile go-fast vessel in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean near Central America. Cutter James was deployed following the initial discovery by a maritime patrol aircraft of a suspicious vessel. Upon boarding, crew members encountered four suspected smugglers and seized a small amount of cocaine. They later found most of the cocaine in a closed off section of the ship, the agency said. Enforcement of the Eastern Pacific Ocean falls under the jurisdiction of the Alameda-based…

26 May

USCG Cutter Offloads $37 Million Worth of Confiscated Drugs

Sarah SpanglerNews, Vessel Profiles

By Karen Robes Meeks This week, US Coast Guard Cutter Active crewmembers unloaded more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $37 million. The drug was confiscated in early May during the Eastern Pacific Ocean patrol. On April 1, US Southern Command began enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential National Security Objectives. Numerous US agencies from the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security cooperated in the effort to combat transnational organized crime. The Coast Guard, Navy, Customs and Border Protection, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along…