USCGC Isaac Mayo

USCGC Isaac Mayo (WPC-1112)

USCGC Isaac Mayo
History
United States
Namesake	Isaac Mayo
Builder	Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Launched	January 13, 2015
Acquired	January 13, 2015[1]
Commissioned	March 28, 2015[2]
Homeport	Key West, FL
Identification	MMSI number: 338926412 Callsign: NEAP Hull number: WPC-1112
Motto	The will to serve, courage to protect
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type	Sentinel-class cutter
Displacement	353 long tons (359 t)
Length	46.8 m (154 ft)
Beam	8.11 m (26.6 ft)
Depth	2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion	2 × 4,300 kW (5,800 shp) 1 × 75 kW (101 shp) bow thruster
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance	5 days, 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) Designed to be on patrol 2,500 hours per year
Boats & landing craft carried	1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB
Complement	2 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and processing systems	L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament	1 × Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm automatic gun 4 × Browning M2 .50 cal machine guns Various small arms

USCGC Isaac Mayo is a Sentinel-class cutter homeported in Key West, Florida.^[1][3] She is the twelfth Sentinel class to be delivered, and the sixth of six to be assigned to Key West.

Like her sister ships, she is equipped for coastal security patrols, interdiction of drug and people smugglers, and search and rescue. Like the smaller Marine Protector class she is equipped with a stern launching ramp.^[4] The ramp allows the deployment and retrieval of her high speed water-jet powered pursuit boat without first coming to a stop. She is capable of more than 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) and armed with a remote controlled 25 millimetres (0.98 in) M242 Bushmaster autocannon; and four crew-served Browning M2 machine guns.

Operational history

On April 4, 2016, Isaac Mayo intercepted a small boat with twenty-two Cuban refugees on board.^[5] The refugees had gone off course, and had entered Bahamas territory.

Namesake

She is named after Isaac Mayo, who served a surfman at a lifeboat station on Cape Cod.^[3][6] Mayo was an employee of the United States Life-Saving Service, one of the precursor services that were amalgamated into the Coast Guard.

References

1. "Acquisition Update: 12th Fast Response Cutter Delivered To Coast Guard" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
2. "Coast Guard commissions Key West's sixth fast response cutter". Coast Guard News. 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
3. Bob Lind (2016-02-25). "Coast Guard cutter named after ND farmer who was also East Coast seaman". Archived from the original on 2016-02-28. Retrieved 2016-02-27. In March 2015, a Coast Guard cutter named Isaac Mayo was commissioned in Key West, Fla. It was named for a man who had two widely different jobs in two widely different areas: He was a seaman on the Atlantic Ocean and a farmer in North Dakota.
4. Alfonso Chardy (2012-10-18). "Coast Guard unveils its newest cutter; base will be Miami Beach". Miami Herald. Miami, Florida. Archived from the original on 2014-05-13.
5. Mia Whylly (2016-04-05). "34 Cubans apprehended over the weekend". The Freeport News. Archived from the original on 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2016-04-05. "Early yesterday morning U.S. officials on-board USCG Cutter Isaac Mayo handed over an additional 22 Cuban migrants to Bahamas Immigration officers at the Lucayan Harbour," informed the local immigration officer.
6. Stephanie Young (2010-10-27). "Coast Guard Heroes". United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2012-04-20.