USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756)

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.

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
Commissioned: August 24, 2019
Homeport: USCG Base Honolulu, HI
Identification:
Motto: "DIRIGO ∙DISCIPLINA ∙ SERVO" or Latin for "Lead ∙Train ∙Save"
Status: In service
Badge:
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:
  • 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

History

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 (WMSL-757).

Facts
  1. The cutter can Carry a Sea Stallion 2. The cutter is used for services in the pacific with the USCGC Hamilton in the Atlantic

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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