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And so it continues.
Local shipbuilder Bollinger Shipyards has delivered another Fast Response Cutter to the United States Coast Guard – its 25th delivery in recent years.
The Lockport-based company announced this week that it delivered the USCGC Jacob Poroo this week in Key West, Florida.
The cutter will be commissioned in November in New Orleans.
Bollinger President and CEO Ben Bordelon said the delivery marks a special day for the company, touting that the FRC’s are making the nation safer – especially during troubling times.
“The FRC program is a model program for government acquisition and has surpassed all historical quality benchmarks for vessels of this type and complexity,” Bordelon said. “The results are the delivery of truly extraordinary Coast Guard cutters that will serve our nation for decades to come. As we reflect on the U.S. Coast Guard’s importance to our nation framed by the Coast Guard’s heroic response to Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, we are extremely proud that the Fast Response Cutters built by Louisiana craftsmen here at Bollinger Shipyards are having such a major impact on our country’s safety and security.”
Each FRC is named for an enlisted Coast Guard hero who distinguished him or herself in the line of duty.
Jacob Poroo was posthumously awarded the Coast Guard Medal after he attempted to rescue and respond to a major building fire at the LORAN station in Adak, Alaska in 1968.
