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Homeland Security

First Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter To Be Launched Next Week

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

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First Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter To Be Launched Next Week

Offshore Patrol Cutter ARGUS in launch position. Photo: Eastern Shipbuilding Group

The Coast Guard and shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group on Friday, October 27 will launch the service’s first new medium-endurance cutter in decades, the Offshore Patrol Cutter ARGUS (WMSM-915) at a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Panama City, Fla. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan said on Tuesday that the launch is “an incredible milestone” for the shipyard, which suffered at tremendous blow in October 2018 when it was hit by a hurricane that eventually forced Eastern Shipbuilding to seek…

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