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Mitchel Meavilin / U.S. Coast Guard

Ukrainian patrol boat

Sloviansk, lost in combat

March 3, 2022, began life as

USCGC Cushing (WPB 1321).

She had been transferred to

Ukraine in September 2019. transfer to Ukraine in 2019.

Troy Knivila-Ritchie, marketing and sales specialist at SBI, con? rmed extensive ongoing global business: “We are still producing CB OTH boats (26’ center console, inboard) for the U.S. Coast Guard. Through U.S.

Coast Guard FMS programs we have plans to deliver several boats to coun- tries in South America, Caribbean,

Eastern Europe/Western Asia, Africa,

Middle East and Asia. So, basically [we’re] all over the world.”

Knivila-Ritchie referred to the Cut- ter Boat, Over-the-Horizon, fourth generation (OTH IV) contract award- ed SBI in April 2021. Supplementing a contract ? lled by SBI since 2013, a 12

April 2021 contract calls for up to 20 more of the open 26-foot, 40-knot die- sel-powered inboard OTH IVs through

April 2024. With a 200 nautical mile range, OTH IVs are deployed aboard

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