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Security Vessel News Roundup | September 15 – US Coast Guard cutter delivery, patrol crewboat orders and more
Baird Maritime's September 15 security-vessel roundup covered several separate fleet and procurement developments rather than a single contract. The principal U.S. item was the commissioning in New York of USCGC Jeffrey Palazzo, the Coast Guard's 63rd Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter, named for a Coast Guard reservist and firefighter killed on September 11, 2001. The roundup also included patrol-crewboat orders and other smaller security-vessel developments with differing customers and schedules. Each item represents its own delivery, order or programme milestone, so the roundup should not be presented as one aggregated procurement award.