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Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division announced today the completion of acceptance sea trials for the company's fourth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Hamilton (WMSL 753). The ship was underway for a two-day period in the Gulf of Mexico, performing numerous tests and demonstrations of shipboard systems for the Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV).

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Completes Acceptance Sea Trials on Fourth National Security Cutter

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Hello US Navy!! There's you new frigate.. just start working on the funding..the design is nearly settled!

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The first Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan for the US Coast Guard arrived at the service’s HC-27J Asset Project Office in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on 13 November. It will be used to train and qualify aircrew and maintenance personnel, as well as develop flight and maintenance procedures for Coast Guard-specific mission profiles. Ultimately the aircraft will receive the equipment and systems needed to perform the full spectrum of Coast Guard missions.

The C-27J concerned – serial number 2714 – is one of 14 aircraft formerly in service with the US Air Force. Budget cuts forced the aircraft to be retired after only a few years of service, but the USCG was quick to snatch them up. The US Special Operations Command also took seven Spartans.

The airplane flew to Elizabeth City from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group’s facility in Tucson, Arizona, where 13 of the 14 USCG C-27Js are stored. There, a Coast Guard team investigated the aircraft’s history, verified the details of its configuration and inventoried the installed components, performed extensive inspections and necessary maintenance actions, and conducted a functional check flight. The plane was then released for transit to Elizabeth City. The airplane is still painted in grey air force colours.

While the Spartan underwent regeneration, the USCG sent officers to Italy for training as C-27 pilots. A second C-27J should complete regeneration before the end of this year, and two others are expected to finish by mid-2015. The Spartans will operate next to 18 HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft, of which the last one was delivered in October.

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The US Coast Guard (USCG) has placed into service its first Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC) to be homeported on the Atlantic coast.

Fourth-in-class USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753) was commissioned on 6 December in its home port of Charleston, South Carolina. The 127.4 m (418 ft) long cutter is expected to deploy on its first mission in 2015 - most likely on a maritime law enforcement mission in the Western Hemisphere, according to the USCGC.

Built by Pascagoula, Mississippi-based Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Hamilton joins three other sister ships in active service with the coastguard. USCGC Bertholf (WMSL 750), USCGC Waesche (WMSL 751), and USCGC Stratton (WMSL 752) are home ported in Alameda, California.

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Bollinger said:

LOCKPORT, La., Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has delivered the WILLIAM TRUMP, the 11th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the United States Coast Guard.

The announcement was made by Bollinger Chief Operating Officer, Ben Bordelon. "We are extremely happy to announce the delivery of the latest FRC built by Bollinger, the WILLIAM TRUMP, to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, FL. We are looking forward to honoring and celebrating the heroic acts of William Trump at the vessel’s commissioning."

The 154 foot patrol craft WILLIAM TRUMP is the eleventh vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program. To build the FRC, Bollinger used a proven, in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708. It has a flank speed of 28 knots, state of the art command, control, communications and computer technology, and a stern launch system for the vessels 26 foot cutter boat. The FRC has been described as an operational "game changer,” by senior Coast Guard officials.

The Coast Guard took delivery on November 25th, 2014 in Key West, Florida and is scheduled to commission the vessel in Key West, Florida during January, 2015.

Each FRC is named for an enlisted Coast Guard hero who distinguished him or herself in the line of duty. This vessel is named after Coast Guard Hero, Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class William Trump. Because of his valor in action in the assault phase of the landing at Normandy, William Trump was awarded a Silver Star.

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. (

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) is a leading designer and builder of fast military patrol boats, ocean-going double hull barges, offshore oil field support vessels, tug boats, rigs, liftboats, inland waterways push boats, barges, and other steel and aluminum products from its new construction shipyards. Bollinger has 10 shipyards and all are strategically located between New Orleans and Houston with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Waterway. Bollinger is the largest vessel repair company in the Gulf of Mexico region with a total of 28 dry-docks in Louisiana and Texas.

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