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87-FOOT MARINE PROTECTOR CLASS COAST GUARD
 

The 87-foot Marine Protector is a class of coastal patrol boats of the United States Coast Guard. Each boat is named after a marine predator. The class is an innovative, multi-mission class of vessel capable of performing search and rescue, law enforcement, fishery patrols, drug interdiction, illegal immigrant interdiction and homeland security duties up to 200 miles offshore.

Missions include combating drug smuggling, illegal immigration, marine fisheries enforcement and search and rescue support. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks many have a homeland security mission in the form of ports waterways and coastal security (PWCS) patrols.

The Marine Protector class was designed in accordance with the American Bureau of Shipping's "Guide of Building and Classing High Speed Crafts" and is capable of towing vessels weighing up to 200 tons. One of the most important design requirements is the necessity to provide a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat with a launching system that provides for the launch and recovery of the RIB in seas up to 8 feet wave height. The class employs an innovative stern launch and recovery system using aluminum-hulled cutter boats propelled by inboard diesel-powered waterjets. The stern launching system requires just a single crewmember to remain on deck to launch or retrieve the boarding party.

The vastly larger pilothouse is equipped with an integrated bridge system, including an electronic chart display system, which interfaces with surface search radars used by U.S. warships.

Like all new U.S. Coast Guard vessels, the Marine Protector class are designed to accommodate crews of mixed gender with five separate small berthing spaces accommodating standard crews of ten with maximum berthing for 12.

The Coast Guard placed its original order in 1999 for 50 boats, which were delivered by mid-2002. Several additional orders brought the class to a total of 74 ships. Four additional vessels were built for Foreign Military Sales, with two each going to Malta and Yemen. In 2020 the Department of Homeland Security proposed a budget for the Coast Guard for 2021 where 8 Marine Protector cutters would be decommissioned, as their missions could be taken by new Sentinel class cutters.

This primarily wood model of the Marine Protector class is 23" long x 14" tall x 6" wide (1/48 scale) $2,150  Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $250 flat rate. This model is in stock and can be shipped within five business days. Let us know the name of the ship and its number and we'll make them on the model for you.

For larger sizes, please email for quotes.

We can make any of the Marine Protector class cutter below for you.  If you are a sailor or an ex-sailor on a particular ship and you'd like to change/add/subtract some features on the model to reflect the ship at the time of your service, we can do that for you. For the cutters that guard submarine bases (Sea Dragon, Sea Dog, Sea Devil, and Sea Fox), we will add a big remote controlled machine gun.

For more accurate Coast Guard models from ModelShipMaster, please click here: https://www.modelshipmaster.com/products/Coastguard/index.htm
 

We built the Marine Protector cutter from blueprints. If you look at the plans below and compare it with other models, you will see a lot. The most notable is the slim hull. Nobody is as nearly accurate as ModelShipMaster is, worldwide!

Learn more about the USCG Marine Protector cutters here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Protector-class_patrol_boat