CGC STRATTON

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Counternarcotic mission cut short due to Covid-19 outbreak

The USCG 'Stratton' while on a counternarcotics patrol, returned to its home port on Nov 18, 2020, after 11 members of its 133-person crew tested positive for the coronavirus. The 'Stratton' had left Coast Guard Base Alameda, California, on Oct 28 on what was supposed to have been a roughly seven-week patrol in the Eastern Pacific. Two weeks later, on Nov 11 and Nov 12, several crew members began to develop symptoms of Covid-19. The crew members were given rapid Covid-19 tests, and they and their close contacts were identified and quarantined. While the source of the outbreak was not clear but that Coast Guard medical officials are conducting contact tracing with the crew to identify it

New CG cutter sea trials successfully completed

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Friday that Stratton, the company’s third U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, successfully completed builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The company’s latest NSC, built at Ingalls Shipbuilding, spent three days at sea testing all of the ship’s systems. NSCs are the flagships of the Coast Guard fleet, designed to replace the 378-foot Hamilton-class High-Endurance Cutters, which entered service during the 1960s.