Coast Guard Base Ketchikan is a major shore installation of the

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located in

Ketchikan Ketchikan ( ; ) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of Alaska. It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic Landmark District. With a po ...

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. The base is a homeport for two

Sentinel-class cutter The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter or FRC due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. At , it is similar to, but larger than, the lengthened 1980s-era s that it replaces. ...

s and a buoy tender, and is the only Coast Guard

dry dock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

in the state. Located one mile south of the city's downtown area along the southwestern shore of

Revillagigedo Island Revillagigedo Island (, , , locally Revilla, ) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Ketchikan Gateway Borough of the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska. Running about 89 km (50 mi) north-south and 48 km (35 ...

, the base was originally established in 1920 to support the

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and became part of the Coast Guard in 1940.Coast Guard Alaska

In addition to the homeported cutters, Base Ketchikan's maintenance facilities support forward-deployed cutters throughout

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, in Petersburg,

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and Sitka.

Coast Guard Station Ketchikan

Coast Guard Station Ketchikan is a tenant unit on Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, equipped with 47-foot motor lifeboats and the Response Boat-Medium. It is one of three Coast Guard small-boat stations in Alaska.USCG Station Ketchikan

. Retrieved 15 February 2017

Homeported cutters

* USCGC Bailey T. Barco - Sentinel-class cutterSentinel Class vessel to be based in Ketchikan
'' Ketchikan Daily News'', 17 December 2016 *

USCGC John McCormick USCGC ''John McCormick'' (WPC-1121) is the United States Coast Guard's 21st United States Coast Guard Cutter, cutter, and the first to be stationed in Alaska, where she is homeported at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan. The vessel's manufacturer, Boll ...

- Sentinel-class cutter * USCGC Anthony Petit (WLM-558) - Keeper-class buoy tenderDistrict Units

Seventeenth District

References

External links

Coast Guard Base Ketchikan
- official site
Coast Guard Station Ketchikan
- official site {{coord, 55.3326, -131.6246, type:landmark_region:US-AK, display=title Buildings and structures in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska Military installations in Alaska United States Coast Guard bases Ketchikan, Alaska 1920 establishments in Alaska