June 12, 2003
Thursday - 11:40 am

A Coast Guard change of command ceremony took place in Ketchikan Tuesday morning aboard the 110-foot patrol boat Naushon.
 
Lt. Phillip Crigler relieved Lt. Anthony Stobbe as the ship's commanding officer at 10:35 a.m. June 10th according to a USCG news release.
 
The Coast Guard commissioned the Naushon Oct. 3, 1986. It is the eleventh in a series of 49 Island class patrol boats built by Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard in Lockport, La.
 
The 110-foot Island Class Coast Guard cutters are built upon a British patrol boat design created by Vosper-Thornycraft. The vessels replaced the Coast Guard's 95-foot Cape Class patrol boat fleet in the late 1980s
 
Naushon is named for an island near Nantucket Island off Cape Cod, Mass. There are four additional 110-foot Island class Patrol boats based in Alaska, the Anacapa in Petersburg, the Liberty in Juneau, the Mustang in Seward and the Roanoke Island in Homer.

Source of News Release:

United States Coast Guard
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