Coast Guard commissions first California FRC

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour mans the rail during the cutter’s commissioning ceremony, Nov. 8, 2018, in San Pedro, Calif. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Fireman Taylor Bacon

The Coast Guard commissioned the first California-based 154-foot fast response cutter in San Pedro on Thursday.

The Coast Guard cutter Forrest Rednour is the first of four Sentinel-class FRCs to be homeported at Base Los Angeles-Long Beach.

Three additional FRCs are scheduled to be commissioned by summer of 2019. While these ships will be based in San Pedro, they will operate throughout the 11th Coast Guard District, which includes all of California and international waters off of Mexico and...

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