USCGC Nathan Bruckenthal

USCGC Nathan Bruckenthal

History
Namesake	Nathan Bruckenthal
Builder	Bollinger Shipyards
Commissioned	July 25, 2018
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	Sentinel cutter
Displacement	353 long tons (359 t)
Length	154 feet (47 m)
Beam	25 feet (7.6 m)
Propulsion	2 × 4,300 kW (5,800 shp) MTU diesel engines [1] 1 × 75 kW (101 shp) bow thruster [1]
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
Endurance	5 days
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 (and 4 × crew-served Browning M2 machine guns on some cutters)

USCGC Nathan Bruckenthal (WPC-1128) is a United States Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter (FRC) of the Sentinel class.

Commissioned July 25, 2018 and is the 28th of the series. USCGC Nathan Bruckenthal is stationed in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, in the Coast Guard's Fifth District. From South Carolina to New Jersey, the ship's patrol area will encompass 156,000 square miles (400,000 km²) of ocean, including several major mid-Atlantic ports and Washington, D. C.. ^[2]

Namesake

Named after Damage Controlman 3rd class Nathan Bruckenthal, killed in action on April 24, 2004. Bruckenthal and two U.S. Navy sailors were killed while intercepting a waterborne suicide attack on an offshore oil terminal off the coast of Iraq in the northern Persian Gulf. ^[3] Bruckenthal was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device and the Purple Heart for his actions.

See also

• Patrol Forces Southwest Asia

References

1. "Sentinel Class". Naval Technology. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
2. Disco, Jetta (2018-06-25). "Coast Guard Commissions 28th Fast Response Cutter". dcms.uscg.mil. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
3. "United States Coast Guard". www.uscg.mil. Retrieved 2024-01-18.