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USCGC Margaret Norvell (WPC-1105)
The USCGC Margaret Norvell, delivered to the USCG 2013-03-21, but not yet commissioned
The USCGC Margaret Norvell, delivered to the USCG 2013-03-21, but not yet commissioned.
Career Ensign of the United States Coast Guard
Name: USCGC Margaret Norvell (WPC-1105)
Namesake: Margaret Norvell
Operator: United States Coast Guard
Builder: Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Launched: 2013-01-13
Commissioned: 2013-06-01
Homeport: Miami, Florida
General characteristics
Class & 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 kilowatts (5,800 shp)
1 × 75 kilowatts (101 shp) bow thruster
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance: 5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (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 × crew-served Browning M2 machine guns

The USCGC Margaret Norvell (WPC-1105) will be the fifth Sentinel-class cutter, scheduled to serve in Miami, Florida upon her commissioning.[1][2] She was launched on January 13, 2012, and delivered to the Coast Guard in March 21, 2013.[3][4][5] She was commissioned on June 1, 2013.[6][7] She was commissioned at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, near where she staffed her lighthouse for decades.

The vessel is named after Margaret Norvell, who served as a lighthouse keeper for the United States Lighthouse Service, from 1891 to 1932.[8][9][10][11]

The Key News reported that the Margaret Norvell was in Key West on April 2, 2013, finishing her outfitting.[12]

References[]

  1. "Fast Response Cutter: 154-foot Sentinel class". Coast Guard Outlook. 2012. p. 172. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nxtbook.com%2Ffaircount%2FUSCG%2FUSCG12%2Findex.php%3Fstartid%3D173&date=2013-01-03. 
  2. Rhonda Carpenter (2012-11-05). "Coast Guard Commissions Third Fast Response Cutter, William Flores". Defense Media Network. Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defensemedianetwork.com%2Fstories%2Fcoast-guard-commissions-third-fast-response-cutter-william-flores%2F&date=2013-01-04. "The first six FRCs for District 7 will be homeported in Miami; the next six in Key West; and the remaining six in Puerto Rico." 
  3. "Current U.S. and Canadian Shipbuilding Contracts". Marine Log. 2012-12-28. Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shipbuildinghistory.com%2Ftoday%2Fcontracts.htm&date=2013-01-04. 
  4. "Bollinger Delivers the CGC Margaret Norvell the Fifth Fast Response Cutter to the USCG". Maritime Executive. 2013-03-26. Archived from the original on 2013-03-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maritime-executive.com%2Farticle%2FBollinger-Delivers-the-CGC-Margaret-Norvell-the-Fifth-Fast-Response-Cutter-to-the-USCG-2013-03-26%2F&date=2013-03-27. "The Coast Guard took delivery March 21, 2013 in Key West, Florida and is scheduled to commission the vessel in New Orleans, Louisiana in June, 2013." 
  5. "Bollinger delivers fifth fast response cutter to the US Coast Guard". The Republic. 2013-03-26. Archived from the original on 2013-03-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.therepublic.com%2Fview%2Fstory%2Fcce36469bb804dc4b5b5c1298775a3dd%2FLA--Cutter-Delivered&date=2013-03-27. "Monday's announcement by Chris Bollinger, executive vice president of new construction, says the Margaret Norvell was delivered last week to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, Florida, and will be stationed at USCG Sector Miami. It will be commissioned in New Orleans in June." 
  6. "Bollinger Deliver Fifth Fast Response Cutter". Marine Link. 2013-03-25. Archived from the original on 2013-03-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marinelink.com%2Fnews%2Fbollinger-response352881.aspx&date=2013-03-27. "The 154 foot patrol craft 'Margaret Norvell' is the fifth vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program. To build the FRC, Bollinger Shipyards used a proven, in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708." 
  7. "Commissioning ceremony for Coast Guard Cutter Margaret Norvell". Coast Guard News. 2013-05-30. Archived from the original on 2013-05-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uscgnews.com%2Fgo%2Fdoc%2F4007%2F1785059%2F&date=2013-05-31. Retrieved 2013-05-31. 
  8. Connie Braesch (2010-11-01). "Coast Guard Heroes: Margaret Norvell". United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoastguard.dodlive.mil%2F2010%2F11%2Fcoast-guard-heroes-margaret-norvell%2F&date=2013-01-03. Retrieved 2013-01-03. "As a member of the U.S. Lighthouse Service, she first served at the Head of Passes Light as an assistant keeper from 1891 to 1896. Her leadership did not go unnoticed and after Head of Passes she was appointed keeper of both the Port Pontchartrain Light from 1896 to 1924 and the West End Light where she served from 1924 to 1932." 
  9. Stephanie Young (2010-10-27). "Coast Guard Heroes". United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoastguard.dodlive.mil%2F2010%2F10%2Fcoast-guard-heroes%2F&date=2013-01-03. Retrieved 2012-04-20. 
  10. Marilyn Turk (2011-09-30). "It's my job". Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpathwayheart.com%2F%3Fp%3D717&date=2013-01-03. "Thus Margaret Norvell became a lighthouse keeper in 1891. In 1896, she was reassigned to be the keeper of the Port Pontchartrain Light Station on Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana at the treacherous mouth of the Mississippi River. And for the next 36 years, she handled the job of keeper and was credited with rescuing many shipwrecked sailors." 
  11. Mary Louise Clifford, J. Candace Clifford (2001). Women who kept the lights: an illustrated history of female lighthouse keepers. Cypress Communications. ISBN 9780963641250. http://books.google.ca/books?ei=_iXmUPKrEMnsrAHs8YAw&id=Y5_hAAAAMAAJ&dq=Women+Who+Kept+the+Lights&q=Margaret+Norvell#search_anchor. Retrieved 2013-01-03. 
  12. Adam Linhardt (2013-04-03). "Newest, fastest cutters on the way: All 58 ships will pass through Key West, Coast Guard says". Key West: Key News. Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkeysnews.com%2Fnode%2F46655&date=2013-04-24. "The Miami-bound Margaret Norvell is in Key West right now being outfitted, Hagwood said." 


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