US Coast Guard takes delivery of 62nd fast response cutter

March 3, 2026, by Fatima Bahtić

The US Coast Guard has accepted delivery of the 62nd fast response cutter, USCGC Vincent Danz (WPC 1162).

The delivery took place on February 26, 2026, in Key West. Vincent Danz is the fourth FRC to be homeported to Guam.

The Sentinel-class FRCs replace the 1980s Island-class 33.5-meter patrol boats. The US Coast Guard ordered a total of 77 FRCs to date to perform a range of missions, including countering illicit maritime activities, search and rescue, bilateral and multilateral international operations, and the national defense of ports, waterways, and coastal areas.

Each FRC is named after an enlisted US Coast Guard hero who performed extraordinary service in the line of duty. Vincent Danz was a New York City police officer and US Coast Guard reservist who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001, while responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

The FRCs homeported in the US territory of Guam extend the US Coast Guard and Oceania District’s operational reach across the Pacific, conducting maritime security operations, combating illegal fishing, supporting search and rescue missions, and strengthening partnerships.

Vincent Danz will join the Myrtle Hazard (WPC 1139), Oliver Henry (WPC 1140), and Frederick Hatch (WPC 1143), commissioned in 2021 in Guam.

Sixty-one FRCs are in service: 13 in Florida; seven in Puerto Rico; six each in Bahrain and Massachusetts; five in Alaska; four in California; three each in Hawaii, Guam, Texas, New Jersey, and Mississippi; and two each in North Carolina and Oregon.

To remind, the US Coast Guard recently awarded a contract for five Arctic security cutters (ASCs), a new class of polar icebreaker critical to increasing the US presence in the Arctic.