USCGC Grand Isle (WPB-1338)


USCGC Grand Isle is an operated by the United States Coast Guard.
She is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and named after Grand Isle, Louisiana.
In January 2012 Grand Isle returned to Gloucester after repairs that took six months.
When she entered the Baltimore dockyard in the summer of 2011, she was estimated to require $1.6 million in repairs, repairs that would take eight weeks.
However, more extensive repairs were required, which took longer, and cost $2.7 million.
As of December 2016, the United States Government transferred Grand Isle from the United States Coast Guard to the Pakistan Navy's Maritime Security Agency under the Office of International Acquisition’s Excess Defense Articles Program, together with sister ship Key Biscayne.

Design

The s were constructed in Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana. Grand Isle has an overall length of. It had a beam of and a draft of at the time of construction. The patrol boat has a displacement of at full load and at half load. It is powered by two Paxman Valenta 16 CM diesel engines or two Caterpillar 3516 diesel engines. It has two 3304T diesel generators made by Caterpillar; these can serve as motor–generators. Its hull is constructed from highly strong steel, and the superstructure and major deck are constructed from aluminum.
The Island-class patrol boats have maximum sustained speeds of. It is fitted with one machine gun and two M60 light machine guns; it may also be fitted with two Browning.50 caliber machine guns. It is fitted with satellite navigation systems, collision avoidance systems, surface radar, and a Loran C system. It has a range of and an endurance of five days. Its complement is sixteen. Island-class patrol boats are based on Vosper Thornycroft patrol boats and have similar dimensions.