InSurv passes national security cutter Waesche

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InSurv passes national security cutter Waesche
By Susan Gvozdas - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Oct 22, 2009 17:37:28 EDT

The Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey recommended that the Coast Guard accept its second-in-class national security cutter.

The board praised the Waesche as a “very clean and capable platform” that met or exceeded expectations, according to a Coast Guard news release Thursday. InSurv issued its report Oct. 14.

The Coast Guard and InSurv conducted acceptance trials from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. Acceptance trials are intended to identify problems and ensure the cutter meets contractual requirements before the government accepts delivery.

Each discrepancy is noted on an electronic trial card. The Waesche had 3,174 cards, but only three that were “starred cards” — referring to problems that must be corrected before delivery, according to the Coast Guard. The problems involved the ship’s anchor dimensions, incinerator and degaussing system.

Over the next several weeks, the Coast Guard will work with the shipbuilder to address the starred discrepancies and develop plans to resolve all the trial cards. The ship is scheduled for delivery in early November in Pascagoula, Miss. Crew training and equipment testing is expected to begin in late December, with commissioning May 7.


Rest of article about this $641+ million wonder at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/coastguard_waesche_102209w/



unhappycamper comment: Read all about the USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750):



Ordered: January 2001
Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Cost: $641 million<1>
Laid down: March 29, 2005
Launched: September 29, 2006
Christened: November 11, 2006
Commissioned: August 4, 2008
Homeport: Alameda, California
Motto: "Legends Begin Here"
Status: Commissioned
General characteristics
Type: National Security Cutter
Displacement: 4500 LT
Length: 418 feet
Beam: 54 feet
Draught: 30 feet
Propulsion: Combined diesel and gas
Speed: 28+ knots
Range: 12,000 nm
Complement: 113 (14 Officers)
Sensors and
processing systems: EADS 3D TRS-16 Air Search Radar
SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar
AN/SPS-73 Surface Search Radar
AN/SLQ-32
Electronic warfare
and decoys: AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System
Armament: 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System
Close-In Weapons System
2 SRBOC/ 2 NULKA countermeasures chaff/rapid decoy launcher
4 50 Caliber Machine Guns
2 M240B 7.62mm Light Machine Guns
Aircraft carried: (2) MH-65C Dolphin MCH, or (4) VUAV or (1) MH-65C Dolphin MCH and (2) VUAV
Aviation facilities: 50x80 foot flight deck, hangar for all aircraft