USCGC Robert Yered

Design

Like her sister ships, she is equipped for coastal security patrols, interdiction of drug and people smugglers, and search and rescue. Like the smaller she is equipped with a stern launching ramp. The ramp allows the deployment and retrieval of her high speed water-jet powered pursuit boat without first coming to a stop. Robert Yered is capable of more than 25 kn. She is armed with a remote controlled 25 mm M242 Bushmaster autocannon and four crew-served Browning M2 machine guns.

Operational career

File:Container barge fire, via USCG, 2014-03-06.jpg |Robert Yered responded to a fire on barge full of containers on March 6, 2014. File:USCG rescues boaters, 2018-12-07 (181207-G-TM873-2019).jpg |Robert Yered rescued boaters when their vessel burned 30 miles off Miami, 2018-12-07. File:Coast Guard interdicts 50 Haitian migrants 46 miles north of Cap-Haïtien (Image 1 of 2).jpg | A Robert Yered small boat crew approaches a 30-foot panga vessel with 50 Haitian migrants aboard approximately 46 miles north of Cap Haïtien, Haiti, May 20, 2019. File:Coast Guard interdicts 50 Haitian migrants 46 miles north of Cap-Haïtien (Image 2 of 2).jpg | A Robert Yered small boat crew gives life jackets to 50 Haitian migrants approximately 46 miles north of Cap Haïtien, Haiti, May 20, 2019.

On March 6, 2014, Robert Yered responded to a distress call from the ocean-going tug Patriarch, when containers on a large barge it was pushing burst into flame.

On April 28, 2018, Robert Yered, and another nearby vessel, rescued the five crewmembers of the fishing vessel La Bella.

The owners of the 60 ft pleasurecraft Family Time reported a fire had been triggered in their engine room, at 3:20pm, December 7, 2018. They placed the distress call approximately 30 mi off Miami Beach. They abandoned ship. Robert Yered was nearby, and was able to rescue all three survivors mere minutes after the distress call was placed.

On 20 May 2019, Robert Yered detected an overloaded 30-foot panga vessel and launched a smallboat crew to investigate. The smallboat crew then boarded the vessel and discovered 50 Haitian migrants, including 36 Haitian males and 14 Haitian females. Robert Yered crew safely embarked the migrants and then sank the unsafe vessel to prevent a hazard to navigation. The 50 migrants were then transferred to USCGC Vigilant (WMEC-617), which subsequently repatriated the migrants back to Haiti.

Namesake

She is named after Engineman First Class Robert J. Yered of the U.S. Coast Guard, who put out a fire on an ammunition barge while assigned with a U.S. Coast Guard Explosive Loading Detachment at Cat Lai, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Yered was awarded a Silver Star by the U.S. Army for his heroism.

Notes

Citations

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