USCGC Sea Fox

Sea Fox at Naval Base Kitsap.
History
United States
NameUSCGC Sea Fox
NamesakeUSS Sea Fox
BuilderBollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Acquired2009
HomeportKings Bay, Georgia
Identification
MottoSemper Infensus
Statusin active service
General characteristics
Class & typeMarine Protector-class coastal patrol boat
Displacement91 long tons (92 t)
Length87 ft 0 in (26.5 m)
Beam19 ft 5 in (5.9 m)
Draft5 ft 7 in (1.7 m)
Propulsion2 × MTU diesels
Speed25 knots (46 km/h)
Range900 nmi (1,700 km)
Endurance5 days
Complement10
Armament3 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns
Unlike most other ships of her class, Sea Fox mounts a gyro-stabilized remote controlled machine gun.

USCGC Sea Fox was the last Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat to be built.[1] Her first home port was Bangor, Washington where she was part of the Coast Guard Maritime Force Protection Unit there, in company with her sister ship USCGC Sea Devil.[2]

Unlike most cutters in her class she is owned by the United States Navy, although she is staffed by United States Coast Guard personnel.[2] She and three of her sister ships (Sea Devil, Sea Dragon and Sea Dog) were employed to protect the Navy's largest submarines, the nuclear-armed Ohio class, while the submarines were in or near their moorings. These four cutters mounted an additional gyro-stabilized remotely controlled machine gun.[3]

When Sea Dragon and Sea Dog, assigned to Coast Guard Maritime Force Protection Unit Kings Bay, were decommissioned on May 29, 2024, Sea Fox and Sea Devil replaced them.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Bollinger Shipyards delivers final Marine Protector-class CPB". Industry News. 2009-05-13. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. It was a sad, yet exciting occasion Friday as Bollinger Shipyards Inc. in Lockport delivered the final Marine Protector-class Coastal Patrol Boat (CPB) to the U.S. Coast Guard. Completion of the Sea Fox ends the CPB contract first awarded to Bollinger in 1996.
  2. ^ a b Ed Friedrich (2008-06-20), Enlisting a Coast Guard Cutter to Protect Navy Subs, Kitsap Sun, archived from the original on 2016-10-02, A second 87-foot cutter, the Sea Fox, is being built and will be added next year.
  3. ^ HMC James T. Flynn Jr., USNR(ret) (2014-06-23). "U. S. Coast Guard: Small Cutters and Patrol Boats 1915 - 2012" (PDF). US Coast Guard. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-05-10. The four boats which are stationed at Kitsap, WA and Kings Bay, GA submarine bases have an extra remotely operated 50 cal. m.g. Alt URL
  4. ^ "PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard cutters Sea Dog, Sea Dragon decommissioned in St. Marys, Georgia" (Press release). Jacksonville, Florida: PADET Jacksonville, United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
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