USCGC ''Kimball'' (WMSL-756)

USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756)
History
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
Acquired: September 19, 2018
Commissioned: 2019
Homeport: USCG Base Honolulu, HI
Motto: "DIRIGO ∙DISCIPLINA ∙ SERVO" or Latin for "Lead ∙Train ∙Save"
Status: accpeted
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Legend-class
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:
  • EADS 3D TRS-16 AN/SPS-75 Air Search Radar
  • SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar
  • AN/SPS-73 Surface Search Radar
  • AN/SLQ-32
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System
  • 2 SRBOC/ 2 x NULKA countermeasures chaff/rapid decoy launcher
Armament:
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


See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Security Cutter: Program Profile". USCG.mil. US Coast Guard. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  2. ↑ Coast Guard Selects Small UAS For NSC (PDF), USCG Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, retrieved 16 December 2017


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