USCG Bertholf: First National Security Cutter
CAPT Patrick H. Stadt, Commanding Officer at USCGC Bertholf Commisioning Ceremony:
“Even after all those years of work, after all the testing and trials are complete, the result is still just a mass of steel, cabling, glass and plastic. To become a Coast Guard cutter, to become an asset capable of carrying out an almost staggering list of missions facing us in our world of work today, it must have one important ingredient. That ingredient proudly lines the rail before you and now stands the watch aboard Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf.”
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Major Milestones
Commissioning: Aug 4, 2008 (Acquisition Update)
Preliminary Acceptance: May 8, 2008 (Press Release)
Builder's Trials: Feb 6-11, 2008 (Acquisition Update)
Christened: Veterans Day 2006 (Deepwater News)
Sponsor: Meryl Justin Chertoff
Keel Laying: March 29, 2005
Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf
The
former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Adm. Thomas H. Collins, announced that
the service’s first National Security Cutter will be named after
Ellsworth P. Bertholf, a Coast Guard hero and the first commandant of the
modern-day Coast Guard. Read
the Press Release>>
Learn more about Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf
Resources
Shipbuidling: Glossary of Terms
Acceptance References
Information Assurance Fact Sheet (pdf)
INSURV Message (pdf)
DD250 (pdf) l More about the DD250>>
Brief: NSC Bertholf Preliminary Acceptance (pdf)
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