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Armament. 1 × Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm automatic gun. 4 × crew-served Browning M2 machine guns. USCGC Rollin Fritch is the US Coast Guard 's 19th Sentinel-class cutter, and the first to be homeported outside of the Caribbean. She is based at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey.
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WHEC 716 was the sixth cutter named Dallas and the second of twelve 378-foot Hamilton-class cutters constructed for the Coast Guard. Dallas was stationed at Governor’s Island, New York, from 1967 until September 1996, when the cutter transferred its homeport to Charleston, South Carolina. Vietnam, 1969-1973.
Rollin Fritch — Silver Star hero of Attack Transport Callaway Jan 26, 2024 NA - A portrait of Silver Star Medal recipient Seaman First Class Rollin Fritch, one of the heroic Coast Guardsmen to die on board the Callaway during the kamikaze attack on January 8, 1945.
Jan. 26, 2024. Rollin Fritch — Silver Star hero of Attack Transport Callaway. “Rollin Fritch’s devotion to duty reminds us how to conduct ourselves aboard this ship. He manned his gun until the very end.” — Lt. Jason McCarthey, Cutter Rollin Fritch’s first commanding officer.
Aug 24, 2016 · August 24, 2016. The U.S. Coast Guard received the 19th fast response cutter, Rollin Fritch, in Key West, Florida, on August 23. The Coast Guard said USCGC Rollin Fritch would be based in Cape May, New Jersey as the first FRC stationed outside Florida or Puerto Rico.
The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. At 154 feet (46.8 m), it is similar to, but larger than, the 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era Island-class patrol boats that it replaces.
