USCGC Kimball

USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) is the seventh Legend-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. Kimball is named for Sumner Increase Kimball, who was the organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878–1915.

USCGC Kimball

History
United States
Name	Kimball
Namesake	Sumner Increase Kimball
Awarded	April 30, 2013
Builder	Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Cost	$487.1 Million
Laid down	March 4, 2016
Launched	December 17, 2016
Sponsored by	Kay Webber Cochran, wife of Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss
Christened	March 4, 2017
Commissioned	August 24, 2019
Homeport	USCG Base Honolulu, HI
Identification	MMSI number: 303867000 Callsign: NKAY
Motto	"DIRIGO ∙DISCIPLINA ∙ SERVO" or Latin for "Lead ∙Train ∙Save"
Status	In service
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General characteristics
Class and type	Legend-class cutter
Type	National Security Cutter
Displacement	4500 LT
Length	418 ft (127 m)
Beam	54 ft (16 m)
Height	140 ft (43 m)
Draft	22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Decks	4
Propulsion	Combined diesel and gas
Speed	28+ knots
Range	12,000 nm
Endurance	60-90 days
Complement	111 (15 Officers, 15 CPO, 81 Enlisted) and can carry up to 148 depending on mission[1]
Sensors and processing systems	EADS 3D TRS-16 AN/SPS-75 Air Search Radar SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar AN/SPS-73 Surface Search Radar AN/SLQ-32
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System 2 SRBOC/ 2 x NULKA countermeasures chaff/rapid decoy launcher
Armament	1 x MK 110 57mm gun a variant of the Bofors 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System 1 × 20 mm Block 1B Phalanx Close-In Weapons System 4 × .50 caliber machine guns 2 × M240B 7.62 mm machine guns
Armor	Ballistic protection for main gun
Aircraft carried	1 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH x 2 sUAS[2]
Aviation facilities	50-by-80-foot (15 m × 24 m) flight deck, hangar for all aircraft

History

Original planned commission ceremony was on January 19, 2019, but ceremony cancelled due to the government shutdown. On August 24, 2019, Kimball was commissioned in Honolulu with USCGC Midgett.

See also

• Legend-class cutter
• Integrated Deepwater System Program

References

1. "National Security Cutter: Program Profile". USCG.mil. US Coast Guard. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
2. Coast Guard Selects Small UAS For NSC (PDF), USCG Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, retrieved 16 December 2017

External links

Media related to USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) at Wikimedia Commons