Bollinger delivers fast response cutter USCGC Glen Harris April 27, 2021, by Sanja Pekic
Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC Glen Harris to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida, making it the 44th fast response cutter for defense in the Arabian Gulf.
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The vessel is the third of six cutters made for operations in Manama, Bahrain, and the 167th the company has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period.
Each fast response cutter is named for an enlisted Coast Guard member who distinguished themselves in the line of duty. Surfman Glen Harris piloted the first wave of the landing craft on Tulagi Island in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and also made a landing against a Japanese force on Guadalcanal Island.
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Iranian Vessels “Harass” U.S. Navy Ships in the Persian Gulf Our Bureau 356
IRGCN ship Harth 55, left, conducted an unsafe and unprofessional action by crossing the bow of US Coast Guard patrol boat Monomoy, right, in the Persian Gulf, April 2, 2021
The U.S. Navy said Iranian vessels harassed its Coast Guard ships in the Persian Gulf earlier this month.
On April 2, an Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) Harth 55, accompanied by three fast attack craft (FAC)/fast inshore attack craft (FIAC), approached U.S. Coast Guard patrol boats USCGC Wrangell (WPB 1332) and USCGC Monomoy (WPB 1326) while the U.S. vessels were conducting routine maritime security patrols in the international waters of the southern Arabian Gulf, the service said in a statement.
Iranian attack boats harassed US warships in Persian Gulf again on Monday, Navy says
Iran’s Navy once again harassed US ships operating in the Persian Gulf, this time coming within 68 yards of the ships on Monday night, prompting one of the American ships to fire warning shots, according to Cdr. Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
Three fast inshore attack craft from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy came within 68 yards of the USS Firebolt, a Navy patrol coast ship, and the Coast Guard cutter Baranoff, Rebarich said in a statement.
The Iranian ships kept operating close to the US vessels despite repeated bridge-to-bridge warnings and the use of loud-hailer devices. In response, the Firebolt fired warning shots, Rebarich said, at which point the Iranian ships backed away to a safe distance.