Ukrainian patrol vessel Sloviansk
Sloviansk
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USCGC Cushing |
Namesake | Cushing Island, Maine |
Commissioned | 4 August 1988 |
Decommissioned | 8 March 2017 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sold to Ukraine on Sep 18, 2018 |
Ukraine | |
Name | Sloviansk |
Namesake | Sloviansk |
Acquired | 27 September 2018 |
In service | 13 November 2019 |
Identification | Pennant number: P190 |
Fate | Sunk by Russian military aircraft on 3 March 2022[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Island-class patrol boat |
Displacement | 168 long tons (171 t) |
Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
Beam | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Propulsion | 2 diesel engines |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Complement | 2 officers, 14 enlisted |
Armament |
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The Ukrainian patrol vessel Sloviansk (P190) was an
She was built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, in early 1988 and commissioned on 4 August 1988, at Coast Guard Base Mobile, Alabama.
Design and construction
The
The Island-class patrol boats have maximum sustained speeds of 29.5
In U.S. service, Cushing was fitted with one 25-millimetre (0.98 in) machine gun and two 7.62-millimetre (0.300 in) M60 light machine guns; it could also be fitted with two Browning .50 caliber machine guns. In Ukrainian service, Sloviansk was armed with a Soviet-era 110-PM autocannon.
Service history
United States Coast Guard
Cushing was commissioned on Coast Guard Day, 4 August 1988, named after Cushing Island, located near Portland, Maine.[4] Throughout her service life, she would partake in a number of humanitarian and military operations. Cushing primarily supported the United States Coast Guard's search and rescue, law enforcement, living marine resources, and counter drug and illegal migrant missions in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic. Cushing was homeported in Alabama, Puerto Rico, and North Carolina during her Coast Guard service.
Cushing was involved in Operation Uphold Democracy, the American backed military intervention in Haiti following the 1991 Haitian coup d'état. In 1994, Cushing was among the 55 Coast Guard cutters operating in support of Operation Able Manner and Operation Able Vigil. These patrols consisted of border security operations, and resulted in the rescue and repatriation of over 63,000 Haitian and Cuban migrants. This was the largest United States Coast Guard operation since the Vietnam War.
Cushing was later transferred to Atlantic Beach, North Carolina,[5] where her primary focus was fisheries and marine law enforcement, as well as search and rescue.
On 8 March 2017 Cushing was decommissioned along with USCGC Nantucket in North Carolina. Two Sentinel-class cutters replaced both cutters the following year.[6] Cushing was laid up in the Coast Guard Yard near Baltimore, Maryland.[7]
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In September 2018, Ukraine was selected to receive the Cushing, as well as her sister ship Drummond through the United States Navy International Programs Office, as part of military aid to the country. The Island-class patrol boat was the first major commissioned ship built in the United States operated by the Ukrainian Navy, which up to this point was composed largely of ships inherited from the breakup of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet into the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy. As a result, the two ships were brought out of storage, and received maintenance and equipment upgrades. Cushing and Drummond were transported to the Black Sea port city of Odesa aboard the Ocean Freedom dry cargo ship, arriving on 21 October 2019.[8][9]
In Ukrainian service, Cushing was renamed to Sloviansk, in memory of the home town of sailors Roman Napriagila and Sergiy Mayboroda.
Sinking
On 3 March 2022, during the
See also
- Ukrainian patrol vessel Starobilsk
- Ukrainian patrol vessel Sumy
- Ukrainian patrol vessel Fastiv
References
- ^ a b "Ukraine Reports Loss of U.S.-Built Patrol Boat by Russian Missile". The Maritime Executive. 8 March 2022.
- ^ a b "110-foot Island Class Patrol Boat (WPB)" (PDF). United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ^ a b "USCG 110' "Island Class" Patrol Boats (WPB)". Bollinger Shipyards. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ^ "Remembering Coast Guard Cutter Cushing". www.mycg.uscg.mil. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ "USCGC CUSHING (WPB 1321)". USCG 7th District. Defense Media Activity. 22 January 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ Pippin, Jannette (10 March 2017). "2 Coast Guard Cutters Decommissioned in ceremony". Military.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ Wolf, Mackenzie (10 March 2017). "U.S. Coast Guard cutters Cushing and Nantucket decommissioned". Navy Times. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ navaltoday (22 October 2019). "Former USCG Island-class cutters arrive in Ukraine". Naval Today. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ "Island-class patrol boats arrive in Ukraine | Shephard". www.shephardmedia.com. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
External links
UATV English: US Coast Guard Patrol Boats were Granted to the Ukrainian Navy