USCGC Winslow W. Griesser (WPC-1116)

Delivering Winslow W. Griesser.
History
Name: USCGC Winslow W. Griesser (WPC-1116)
Namesake: Winslow W. Griesser
Operator: United States Coast Guard
Builder: Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Launched: December 23, 2015
Acquired: December 23, 2015[1]
Commissioned: March 11, 2016[2]
Homeport: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Sentinel-class cutter
Displacement: 353 long tons (359 t)
Length: 46.8 m (154 ft)
Beam: 8.11 m (26.6 ft)
Depth: 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 4,300 kilowatts (5,800 shp)
  • 1 × 75 kilowatts (101 shp) bow thruster
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance:
  • 5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
  • Designed to be on patrol 2,500 hours per year
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 1 × Short Range Prosecutor RHIB
Complement: 2 officers, 20 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:		 L-3 C4ISR suite
Armament:

The USCGC Winslow W. Griesser (WPC-1116) was the sixteenth Sentinel-class cutter to be delivered.[3][4] She will be the fourth of six Sentinel-class vessels to be stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[5] Bollinger shipyards delivered her to the United States Coast Guard, in Key West, Florida, on December 23, 2015.[1] After she completed her acceptance trials, she was commissioned on March 11, 2016.[2]

Namesake

Like all the vessels in her class the Winslow W. Griesser is named after an individual from the Coast Guard's past who has been recognized as a hero.[6] Winslow W. Griesser was the keeper of the United States Lifesaving Service's Buffalo Station, in 1900.[7] When he and his crew ventured out in stormy weather to rescue the crew of two scows they saw had overturned, their own surfboat overturned.[8] Nevertheless, Griesser and a companion tried to swim out, with a tow rope, to rescue survivors who were clinging tenuously to a pile. Griesser's companion was injured, and Griesser continued, alone. He reached the pile, and with great difficulty did rescue the sole remaining survivor. Griesser received a gold lifesaving medal to recognize his exceptional bravery in this rescue.

References

  1. 1 2 "Acquisition Update: Sixteenth FRC Delivered To Coast Guard" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2015-12-24. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  2. 1 2 "Coast Guard commissions newest fast response cutter, Winslow Griesser, in San Juan, Puerto Rico". Coast Guard News. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  3. ↑ "Bollinger Delivers The CGC Winslow Griesser, The 16th Fast Response Cutter To The USCG - Wednesday, December 23, 2015". Bollinger shipyards. 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2016-03-02. The 154 foot patrol craft WINSLOW GRIESSER is the 16th vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class FRC program.
  4. ↑ "US Coast Guard receives 16th fast response cutter". Naval Today. Retrieved 2016-03-02. https://navaltoday.com/2015/12/29/us-coast-guard-receives-16th-fast-response-cutter/ US Coast Guard receives 16th fast response cutter Naval Today The Coast Guard is acquiring 58 FRCs to replace the 110-foot Island-class patrol boats. The FRCs are designed for missions including drug and migrant interdiction; ports, waterways and coastal security; search and rescue; and national defense. line feed character in |quote= at position 85 (help)
  5. ↑ "Coast Guard accepts delivery of fast response cutter Winslow Griesser". Coast Guard News. 2015-12-28. Retrieved 2016-03-02. Fourteen FRCs are in service: six in Miami; six in Key West, Florida; and two in San Juan. The 15th FRC, the Joseph Napier, was delivered in October and is scheduled for commissioning in San Juan in January 2016.
  6. ↑ Stephanie Young (2010-10-27). "Coast Guard Heroes". United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
  7. ↑ "Bollinger delivers FRC Winslow Griesser". Marine Log. 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2016-03-02. Winslow W. Griesser, Keeper of the Buffalo Life-Saving Station in New York, was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal on February 23, 1901 for his heroic actions during a dramatic rescue on November 21, 1900.
  8. ↑ Christopher Havern (2014-01-14). "Coast Guard Heroes: Winslow W. Griesser". US Coast Guard. Retrieved 2016-03-02. Once on the beach Griesser saw that a man from one of the scows was hanging onto a pile. As use of a boat was impracticable, Griesser decided to swim out with a line accompanied by a surfman.
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