USCGC Kimball
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Kimball |
| Namesake | Sumner Increase Kimball |
| Awarded | April 30, 2013 |
| Builder | Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Cost | $487.1 Million |
| Laid down | March 4, 2016 |
| Launched | December 17, 2016 |
| Sponsored by | Kay Webber Cochran, wife of Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss |
| Christened | March 4, 2017 |
| Commissioned | August 24, 2019 |
| Homeport | USCG Base Honolulu, HI |
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| Motto | "DIRIGO ∙DISCIPLINA ∙ SERVO" or Latin for "Lead ∙Train ∙Save" |
| Status | In service |
| Badge | _symbolism.jpg) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Legend-class cutter |
| Type | National Security Cutter |
| Displacement | 4500 LT |
| Length | 418 ft (127 m) |
| Beam | 54 ft (16 m) |
| Height | 140 ft (43 m) |
| Draft | 22.5 ft (6.9 m) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Propulsion | Combined diesel and gas |
| Speed | 28+ knots |
| Range | 12,000 nm |
| Endurance | 60-90 days |
| Complement | 111 (15 Officers, 15 CPO, 81 Enlisted) and can carry up to 148 depending on mission[1] |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | |
| Armament |
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| Armor | Ballistic protection for main gun |
| Aircraft carried | 1 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH x 2 sUAS[2] |
| Aviation facilities | 50-by-80-foot (15 m × 24 m) flight deck, hangar for all aircraft |
USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) is the seventh Legend-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. Kimball is named for Sumner Increase Kimball, who was the organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878–1915.
History
[edit]Original planned commission ceremony was on January 19, 2019, but ceremony cancelled due to the government shutdown. On August 24, 2019, Kimball was commissioned in Honolulu with USCGC Midgett.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Security Cutter: Program Profile". USCG.mil. US Coast Guard. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ Coast Guard Selects Small UAS For NSC (PDF), USCG Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, retrieved 16 December 2017
External links
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Media related to USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) at Wikimedia Commons
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