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Patrol Boats

USCG

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Lau

Coast Guardsmen serving in Law

Enforcement Detachments often operate from boats from their host vessel. Here

LEDET 408 are operating from the littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15) in support of Joint Interagency Task Force South counter-illicit drug traf? cking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Paci? c. gation (ATON) system on the coasts and inland waters. 26’ CUTTER BOAT - OVER THE HORIZON

The BUSL is are designed for lifting and servicing buoys (CB-OTH IV) - SAFE BOATS INTERNATIONAL, and other aids to navigation. 26 are in service. They have Port Orchard, WA light icebreaking capabilities, and are assigned in districts The 40-knot CB-OTH is carried aboard cutters one through nine. and launched when a quick response is required for beyond-sight pursuit and interdiction; boardings and 26’ CUTTER BOAT - OVER THE HORIZON ( searches; and SAR. The first entered service in 2013,

CB-OTH V) - INVENTECH with 130 built.

MARINESOLUTIONS, Bremerton, WA

The ? rst of the 194 CB-OTH V have joined the ? eet. 64’ SPECIAL PURPOSE CRAFT - SCREENING

Eventually they will be deployed on National Security VESSEL (SPC-SV) - GLADDING HEARN / DUCLOS,

Cutters (NSC), Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC), Polar Se- Somerset, MA curity Cutters (PSC), and Fast Response Cutters (FRC). Unlike many Coast Guard cutters and boats, the SPC- www.marinelink.com MN 21|