Coast Guard Base Ketchikan

US Coast Guard base in Ketchikan, Alaska

Base Ketchikan

Active	1940-present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Coast Guard
Type	Base
Role	Search and rescue, maritime patrol, law enforcement, homeland security, maintenance
Motto(s)	First in service in Alaska

Military unit

Coast Guard Base Ketchikan is a major shore installation of the United States Coast Guard located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The base is a homeport for two Sentinel-class cutters and a buoy tender, and is the only Coast Guard dry dock in the state. Located one mile south of the city's downtown area along the southwestern shore of Revillagigedo Island, the base was originally established in 1920 to support the United States Lighthouse Service and became part of the Coast Guard in 1940.^[1] In addition to the homeported cutters, Base Ketchikan's maintenance facilities support forward-deployed cutters throughout Southeast Alaska, in Petersburg, Juneau and Sitka.

Coast Guard Station Ketchikan

Coast Guard Station Ketchikan is a tenant unit on Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, equipped with 47-foot motor lifeboats and the Response Boat-Medium. It is one of three Coast Guard small-boat stations in Alaska.^[2]

Homeported cutters

USCGC Bailey T. Barco - Sentinel-class cutter^[3]
USCGC John McCormick - Sentinel-class cutter
USCGC Anthony Petit (WLM-558) - Keeper-class buoy tender^[4]

References

^ Coast Guard Alaska, United States Coast Guard
^ USCG Station Ketchikan, United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 15 February 2017
^ Sentinel Class vessel to be based in Ketchikan. Ketchikan Daily News, 17 December 2016
^ District Units, United States Coast Guard Seventeenth District