USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756)

USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756)

History
United States
Name:	Kimball
Namesake:	Sumner Increase Kimball
Awarded:	April 30, 2013
Builder:	Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Cost:	$487.1 Million
Laid down:	March 4, 2016
Launched:	December 17, 2016
Sponsored by:	Kay Webber Cochran, wife of Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss
Christened:	March 4, 2017
Identification:	MMSI number: 303866000 Callsign:
Motto:	"DIRIGO ∙DISCIPLINA ∙ SERVO" or Latin for "Lead ∙Train ∙Save"
Status:	Commissioned
General characteristics
Displacement:	4500 LT
Length:	418 ft (127 m)
Beam:	54 ft (16 m)
Height:	140 ft (43 m)
Draft:	22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Decks:	4
Propulsion:	Combined diesel and gas
Speed:	28+ knots
Range:	12,000 nm
Endurance:	60 days
Complement:	111 (15 Officers, 15 CPO, 81 Enlisted) and can carry up to 148 depending on mission
Sensors and processing systems:	EADS 3D TRS-16 AN/SPS-75 Air Search Radar SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar AN/SPS-73 Surface Search Radar AN/SLQ-32
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System 2 SRBOC/ 2 x NULKA countermeasures chaff/rapid decoy launcher
Armament:	1 x MK 110 57mm gun a variant of the Bofors 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System 1 × 20 mm Block 1B Phalanx Close-In Weapons System 4 × .50 caliber machine guns 2 × M240B 7.62 mm machine guns
Armor:	Ballistic protection for main gun
Aircraft carried:	2 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH, or 4 x VUAV or 1 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH and 2 x VUAV
Aviation facilities:	50-by-80-foot (15 m × 24 m) flight deck, hangar for all aircraft

USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) is the seventh Legend-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. Kimball is named for Sumner Increase Kimball, who was the organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915.

See also

• National Security Cutter
• Integrated Deepwater System Program