USCGC Sea Fox
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USCGC Sea Fox was the last Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat to be built.[1] Her first home port was Bangor, Washington where she was part of the Coast Guard Maritime Force Protection Unit there, in company with her sister ship USCGC Sea Devil.[2]
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Sea Fox at Naval Base Kitsap. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USCGC Sea Fox |
| Namesake | USS Sea Fox |
| Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
| Acquired | 2009 |
| Home port | Kings Bay, Georgia |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Semper Infensus |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat |
| Displacement | 91 long tons (92 t) |
| Length | 87 ft 0 in (26.5 m) |
| Beam | 19 ft 5 in (5.9 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × MTU diesels |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range | 900 nmi (1,700 km) |
| Endurance | 5 days |
| Complement | 10 |
| Armament | 3 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns |
Unlike most cutters in her class she is owned by the United States Navy, although she is staffed by United States Coast Guard personnel.[2] She and three of her sister ships (Sea Devil, Sea Dragon and Sea Dog) were employed to protect the Navy's largest submarines, the nuclear-armed Ohio class, while the submarines were in or near their moorings. These four cutters mounted an additional gyro-stabilized remotely controlled machine gun.[3]
When Sea Dragon and Sea Dog, assigned to Coast Guard Maritime Force Protection Unit Kings Bay, were decommissioned on May 29, 2024, Sea Fox and Sea Devil replaced them.[4]
