USCGC Raymond Evans
Raymond Evans, during her sea trials | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Namesake | Raymond Evans (USCG) |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Launched | June 25, 2014 |
| Acquired | June 25, 2014 |
| Commissioned | September 6, 2014 |
| Identification |
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| Motto | We have a job to do |
| Status | in active service |
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| 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 |
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| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
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| Boats & landing craft carried | 1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB |
| Complement | 4 officers, 20 crew |
| Sensors & processing systems | L-3 C4ISR suite |
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USCGC Raymond Evans is the tenth vessel in the United States Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutter. All the vessels are named after members of the Coast Guard, or its precursor services, who are remembered for their heroism. Names had already been assigned for the first fourteen vessels, when Commander Raymond Evans died, and the USCG Commandant announced that the next Sentinel class cutter would be named after him. Joseph Napier, who was originally scheduled to be the namesake of the tenth vessel, had his name moved to the beginning of the second list of heroes names, and will now be the namesake of the fifteenth vessel.
The vessel was delivered to the Coast Guard, for pre-commissioning trials, on June 25, 2014. On August 20, 2014, an open house was held to allow residents of Key West, Florida to tour the vessel. The vessel was commissioned on September 6, 2014.