Response Boat – Medium

Class overview
A US Coast Guard RB-M underway off Yorktown, Virginia
Builders:	Kvichak Marine Industries Marinette Marine Corporation
Operators:	United States Coast Guard
Planned:	170
General characteristics
Displacement:	16.3 ton
Length:	44 ft 9 in (13.64 m)
Beam:	14 ft 7.75 in (4.4641 m)
Draft:	3 ft 4 in (1.02 m)
Installed power:	2 × MTU Detroit Diesel turbocharged Series 60 engines, 825 hp (615 kW) total
Propulsion:	2 × Rolls-Royce FF-Series waterjets
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (cruise) 42.5 knots (78.7 km/h; 48.9 mph) (max)
Range:	250 nmi (460 km; 290 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	4
Armament:	2 × M240B general-purpose machine guns M16 rifle Remington 870 shotgun Santa Cruz Gun Lock Universal Gun Lock Systems

The USCG Response Boat Medium (RBM) has replaced a fleet of 41-foot utility boats (UTBs) that averaged over 30-years of service^[1]

The Response Boat – Medium (RB-M) is a 45-foot (14 m) utility boat used by the United States Coast Guard. It is a replacement for the Coast Guard's retired fleet of 41-foot (12 m) utility boats (UTB), which had been in use by the Coast Guard since the 1970s. The Coast Guard plans to acquire 170^[2] of these RB-Ms over a 6–10 year period.^[3] The boats will be built by Kvichak Marine Industries of Kent, Washington and Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wisconsin.^[4]

According to the US Coast Guard, "While primarily a Search and Rescue (SAR) asset when the 41' UTB was first fielded, the evolution of missions has increased the requirement to perform many missions including Recreational Boating Safety (RBS), Marine Environmental Protection (MEP), Enforcement of Laws and Treaties (ELT), Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS) and Defense Operations (DO), including those traditional missions associated with Homeland Security."^[5]

General characteristics

The boat has a deep-V, double chine hull, which provides a balance of performance and stability. The vessel is self-righting if it capsizes in rough seas. Below the pilot house are six compartments:

Lazarette
Auxiliary machinery compartment
Engine room
Survivors' Compartment
Forepeak
Head

(Sources:^[6]^[7])

Electronics

FLIR navigator thermal imager
Furuno Scalable Integrated Navigation System (SINS)
Furuno radios
Gentex LVIS digital intercom system
Taiyo TD-L1550A VHF Direction Finder
Motorola 5000 digital mobile radio
Mount for KY-99 makes RB-M ready for secure communications
L3 Communications Automatic Identification System (AIS)

Hull numbering

In keeping with standard USCG practice, boats of this size have hull numbers and are not named. This type of boat has a hull number beginning with the length of the boat (45′) and then a sequential number. In the case of the RB-M boats, the hull numbers begin with 601. Thus the first boat will be RB-M 45601.

Boats

45602 underway at Cape Disappointment, Washington. August 7, 2008

Boat	Station	Delivery Date
45601	Little Creek, Virginia	000000002008-03-01-0000March 2008
45602	Cape Disappointment, Washington	000000002008-08-01-0000August 2008
45603	Key West, Florida	000000002008-10-01-0000October 2008
45604	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	000000002008-10-01-0000October 2008
45605	Staten Island, New York	000000002008-12-01-0000December 2008
45606	Port Aransas, Texas	000000002009-01-01-0000January 2009
45607	Yorktown, Virginia	000000002009-02-01-0000February 2009
45608	Boston, Massachusetts	000000002009-03-01-0000March 2009
45609	San Juan, Puerto Rico	000000002009-05-01-0000May 2009
45610	Staten Island, New York	000000002009-07-01-0000July 2009
45611	Port Aransas, Texas	000000002009-07-01-0000July 2009
45612	Staten Island, New York	000000002009-08-01-0000August 2009
45613	Maui, Hawaii	000000002009-09-01-0000September 2009
45614	Staten Island, New York	000000002009-08-01-0000August 2009
45615	Little Creek, Virginia	000000002009-11-01-0000November 2009
45616	Staten Island, New York	000000002009-12-01-0000December 2009
45617	Port Canaveral, Florida	000000002009-11-01-0000November 2009
45618	Galveston, Texas	000000002010-01-01-0000January 2010
45619	Honolulu, Hawaii	000000002010-03-01-0000March 2010
45620	Castle Hill, Rhode Island	000000002009-11-01-0000November 2009
45621	Panama City, Florida	000000002010-01-01-0000January 2010
45622	Staten Island, New York	000000002009-12-01-0000December 2009
45623	St. Petersburg, Florida	000000002010-06-01-0000June 2010
45624	Cleveland Harbor, Ohio	000000002010-04-01-0000April 2010
45625	Lake Worth Inlet, Florida	000000002010-07-01-0000July 2010
45626	Belle Isle, Michigan	000000002010-04-01-0000April 2010
45627	Honolulu, Hawaii	000000002010-08-01-0000August 2010
45628	Duluth, Minnesota	000000002010-05-01-0000May 2010
45629	Castle Hill, Rhode Island	000000002010-06-01-0000June 2010
45630	Galveston, Texas	000000002010-06-01-0000June 2010
45631	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	000000002010-07-01-0000July 2010
45632	Belle Isle, Michigan	000000002010-08-01-0000August 2010
45633	Panama City, Florida	000000002010-08-01-0000August 2010
45634	Fort Pierce, Florida	000000002010-09-01-0000September 2010
45635	Duluth, Minnesota	000000002010-09-01-0000September 2010
45636	New Orleans, Louisiana	000000002010-09-01-0000September 2010
45640	Annapolis, Maryland	000000002010-11-01-0000November 2010
45643	Los Angeles/Long Beach, California	000000002010-12-01-0000December 2010
45651	Los Angeles/Long Beach, California	000000002011-03-01-0000March 2011
45652	Los Angeles/Long Beach, California	000000002011-03-01-0000March 2011
45703	Essexville, Michigan	000000002012-10-01-0000October 2012
45745	Hudgins, Virginia	000000002014-02-01-0000February 2014
45757	Erie, Pennsylvania	000000002014-05-01-0000May 2014

Sources:^[8]^[9]

References

↑ "Homeland Security Budget-in-Brief Fiscal Year 2009" (pdf). United States Department of Homeland Security. 2009. p. 60. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
↑ "Response Boat – Medium" (pdf). Acquisition Directorate. United States Coast Guard. February 2013.
↑ "Response Boat – Medium". Acquisition Directorate. United States Coast Guard. 19 September 2013.
↑ "Title unknown" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 28 June 2007. (subscription required (help)).
↑ "Response Boat - Medium Major Acquisition Project". United States Coast Guard.
↑ "Response Boat-Medium: Project Profile". Acquisition Directorate. United States Coast Guard. 19 September 2013.
↑ "Response Boat-Medium Acquisition Project". Responseboat Project. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09.
↑ "RB-M: Acquisition Project History". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
↑ "Production Update". Responseboat Project. Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2010-02-14.

External links

"Response Boat – Medium History". Kvichak Marine Industries.

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