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Structural Enhancements Completed On Second National Security Cutter

Structural Enhancements Completed On Second National Security Cutter
USCGC Waesche, the second NSC delivered to the Coast Guard, arrives in Pearl Harbor, June 25, 2014, to participate in the 24th Rim of The Pacific exercise, the largest multi-national maritime exercise in the world, which is held biennially off the coast of Hawaii. Photo: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard last Friday said that it has completed structural enhancements on its second National Security Cutter (NSC), the last of the Legend-class cutters that needed the extra work during the post-production phase to ensure they meet their 30-year design fatigue life.The work on the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche was completed on Aug. 23 at Vigor Marine, LLC’s shipyard in Seattle. Vigor Marine is part of Vigor Industrial.Structural enhancements on Waesche began in September 2017, the same time that…

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