USCGC Glen Harris

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Flag of the United States Coast Guard.svgUnited States
NameGlen Harris
Namesake Glen Harris
Operator United States Coast Guard
Builder Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
AcquiredApril 22, 2021 [1]
CommissionedAugust 6, 2021
Homeport Manama, Bahrain
Identification Hull number: WPC-1144
MottoGallantry Abroad
Statusin active service
Badge USCGC Glen Harris (WPC 1144) CoA.jpg
General characteristics
Class and type Sentinel-class cutter
Displacement353 long tons (359  t)
Length46.8 m (154 ft)
Beam8.11 m (26.6 ft)
Depth2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion
  • 2 × 4,300 kW (5,800 shp)
  • 1 × 75 kW (101 shp) bow thruster
Speed28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
Endurance5 days
Boats & landing
craft carried		1 × Cutter Boat - Over the Horizon Interceptor
Complement4 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems		L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament
NotesFirst Commanding Officer LT Reginald Reynolds [2]

USCGC Glen Harris (WPC-1144) is the United States Coast Guard's 44th Sentinel-class cutter. [3] [4]

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Design

Like her sister ships, Glen Harris is designed to perform search and rescue missions, port security, and the interception of smugglers. [5] She is armed with a remotely-controlled, gyro-stabilized 25 mm autocannon, four crew-served M2 Browning machine guns, and light arms. She is equipped with a stern launching ramp, that allows her to launch or retrieve a water-jet propelled high-speed auxiliary boat, without first coming to a stop. Her high-speed boat has the over-the-horizon capability, is useful for inspecting other vessels, and deploying boarding parties.

The crew's drinking water needs are met through a desalination unit. [6] The crew mess is equipped with a television with satellite reception.

Operational career

While as a pre-commissioning unit Glen Harris was deployed to assist the Seacor Power , a 234-foot liftboat. She arrived on the scene within 30-minutes and was able to rescue one of the six survivors. Reportedly, 19 people were aboard. Glen Harris was formally commissioned at Fort Macon in North Carolina near her namesake's birthplace on August 6, 2021. [7]

Glen Harris and Emlen Tunnell trail Thetis (right) after crossing the Atlantic Ocean The USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910), USCGC Glen Harris (WPC 1144), and USCGC Emlen Tunnell (WPC 1145) arrive in Mindelo, Cabo Verde.jpg
Glen Harris and Emlen Tunnell trail Thetis (right) after crossing the Atlantic Ocean

Glen Harris and her sister ship Emlen Tunnell left Key West, Florida on November 18, 2021, escorted by the medium-endurance cutter Thetis. [8] After conducting at-sea refueling training off Puerto Rico on December 11, 2021, [9] the three ships arrived in Mindelo, Cabo Verde on December 29, 2021. [10] On January 5, 2022, the three Coast Guard vessels and a Royal Moroccan Navy frigate rescued 103 migrants and recovered two bodies from two rafts that were taking on water forty miles west of the Moroccan coast. [11] [12]

Namesake

In 2010, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Charles "Skip" W. Bowen, who was then the United States Coast Guard's most senior non-commissioned officer, proposed that all 58 cutters in the Sentinel-class should be named after enlisted sailors in the Coast Guard, or one of its precursor services, who were recognized for their heroism. [13] [14] The Coast Guard chose Glen Harris as the namesake of the 36th cutter. [15] Harris, and three other Coast Guard sailors, piloted the first landing craft during the United States' first amphibious landing, in the Pacific Theater, in World War II. [16] Harris and his three colleagues were each awarded a Silver Star medal for this task. His colleagues Daniel Tarr and Harold Miller have Sentinel-class cutters named after them, as will his other colleague William Sparling.

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References

  1. ↑ "Coast Guard accepts 44th fast response cutter" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  2. ↑ "Coast Guard commissions 44th Fast Response Cutter". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
  3. ↑ "Coast Guard accepts 36th fast response cutter". United States Coast Guard . 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2020-01-15. The Coast Guard accepted delivery of the 36th fast response cutter (FRC), Daniel Tarr, in Key West, Florida, Nov. 7. The cutter will be the first of three planned FRCs stationed in Galveston, Texas.
  4. ↑ "Daniel Tarr Coast Guard Cutter Commissioned in Galveston, Texas". Eastern Shore Post . 2020-01-09. Retrieved 2020-01-15. The USCGC Daniel Tarr will be commissioned Jan. 10 in Galveston, Texas, after the Coast Guard accepted delivery of the vessel in Key West, Fla., in November.
  5. ↑ "FRC Plan B: The Sentinel Class". Defense Industry Daily. May 2, 2014. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-03. All of these boats will be named after enlisted Coast Guard heroes, who distinguished themselves in USCG or military service. The first 25 have been named, but only 8 have been commissioned...
  6. ↑ Jacqueline L. Urgo (November 19, 2016). "Coast Guard to get 'game changer' cutter to save lives and catch criminals". Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-19. Although the cutter is far from luxurious, its crew quarters provide slightly more room and comfort than earlier models, with larger staterooms, more toilets and sinks, greater storage space, and DirecTV access in the mess areas.
  7. ↑ Strong, Stacia (August 6, 2021). "U.S. Coast Guard commissions new cutter named after local WWII hero". Gray Television, Inc. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  8. ↑ "Coast Guard cutters Glen Harris and Emlen Tunnell transition to Patrol Forces Southwest Asia" (Press release). U.S. Coast Guard. December 13, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  9. ↑ "USCGC Thetis trains with USCGC Glen Harris, USCGC Emlen Tunnell". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. December 28, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  10. ↑ "The USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910), USCGC Glen Harris (WPC 1144), and USCGC Emlen Tunnell (WPC 1145) arrive in Mindelo, Cabo Verde". U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command. December 29, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  11. ↑ "U.S. Coast Guard, partners conduct joint rescue of migrants in Atlantic". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area. January 5, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  12. ↑ Liebermann, Oren (January 7, 2022). "US and Moroccan Navy rescue 103 migrants off African coast". Cable News Network, Inc. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  13. ↑ Susan Schept (March 22, 2010). "Enlisted heroes honored". United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original on December 3, 2011. Retrieved 2013-02-01. After the passing of several well-known Coast Guard heroes last year, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Charles "Skip" Bowen mentioned in his blog that the Coast Guard does not do enough to honor its fallen heroes.
  14. ↑ "U.S. Coast Guard announces name for first Sentinel-class cutter". March 22, 2010. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved 2013-02-01. Previously designated to be named the Coast Guard Cutter Sentinel, the cutter Bernard C. Webber will be the first of the service's new 153-foot patrol cutters. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen approved the change of the cutter's name to allow this class of vessels to be named after outstanding enlisted members who demonstrated exceptional heroism in the line of duty. This will be the first class of cutters to be named exclusively for enlisted members of the Coast Guard and its predecessor services.
  15. ↑ "Coast Guard Aligns Names with Hull Numbers for its Sentinel-class FRCs". Seapower magazine . Washington DC. 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2017-12-09. The U.S. Coast Guard has announced the names and corresponding hull numbers for its next 20 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs), each vessel being named for a deceased leader, trailblazer or hero of the Coast Guard and its predecessor services of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, the U.S. Lifesaving Service and the U.S. Lighthouse Service, according to a Dec. 12 Coast Guard release.
  16. ↑ William H. Thiesen (2018-08-09). "The Long Blue Line: Tulagi's coxswains – the service's 1st Silver Star recipients". Coast Guard Compass . Retrieved 2020-01-09. For landing the Marines' first wave at Tulagi, the Navy awarded Silver Star Medals to coxswains Tarr, Sparling, Miller and Harris and advanced them in their rating. They were the first enlisted men in the Coast Guard to receive the Silver Star. All four of these heroic coxswains will be honored as Fast Response Cutter namesakes.
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