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August 24, 2015Bollinger Shipyards has delivered a 154-foot patrol craft to the 7th district Coast Guard district in Puerto Rico.
The vehicle, named the Heriberto Hernandez, is the 14th fast-response cutter the shipyard has built for the Coast Guard and the company said it used “a proven, in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708.” The boat is named after Heriberto Hernandez, described as an “enlisted Coast Guard hero,” a fireman who died in the line of duty while his ship was patrolling the Vietnamese coastline in 1968. The Texas native was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal and the Bronze Star Medal with the Combat “V” for valor.
The Coast Guard received the ship in late July in Key West, Fla. and the vehicle is scheduled to be commissioned in October.
Bollinger Shipyards LLC has 10 shipyards strategically located between New Orleans, La., and Houston, Texas with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Waterway. It is a leading designer and builder of fast military patrol boats and other ocean-going vessels.
