The U.S. Coast Guard today placed a delivery order valued at approximately $9.4 million to Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) for the production of four Response Boats-Medium (RB-M). This delivery order brings the total number of RB-Ms under contract to 170 with deliveries scheduled to continue through 2015.

The Coast Guard accepted delivery of Paul Clark, the sixth vessel in the Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter (FRC) recapitalization project, May 18 in Key West, Fla.

This steel plate, bearing the initials of the cutter’s sponsor, authenticates the keel of NSC 5 as “truly and fairly” laid. Photo courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

The Coast Guard’s new Response Boat-Small (RB-S) II is loaded aboard an HC-130 Hercules transport at Air Station Clearwater, Fla. The RB-S II is one of the Coast Guard’s most versatile multi-mission boats and is used by the Service’s Deployable Operations Group. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Nicholas Schellman.

MEP Cutter Patrols with U.S. 5th Fleets

ARABIAN GULF —The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Adak (WPB 1333) displays the colors during a maritime security patrol with CTF 55 and the U.S. 5th Fleet, April 11, 2013. Adak is one of 17 Island-class patrol boats refurbished under the Acquisition Directorate’s Mission Effectiveness Project (MEP). U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Frank Iannazzo-Simmons.

Aviation and Surface Assets Cooperate in California Rescue

An MH-65D crew from Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, helped boat crews from Station Vallejo, Calif., rescue a family stranded on mud flats off northern California, March 23, 2013. The rescue involved cooperation among the upgraded helicopter, Response Boat-Small, and Response Boat-Medium: new assets delivered by the Acquisition Directorate. U.S. Coast Guard photo.