Fast Response cutter Thorne

Named for Petty Officer Terrell Horne who was killed in the line of duty by drug smugglers.

 

Thorne is a Sentinel-class cutter.

 

General characteristics

Type:Cutter

Displacement:353 long tons (359 t)

Length:46.8 m (154 ft)

Beam:8.11 m (26.6 ft)

Draft:2.9 m (9.5 ft)

 

Propulsion:

2 × 4,300 kW (5,800 shp) MTU diesel engines[1]

1 × 75 kW (101 shp) bow thruster[1]

Speed:28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)

 

Endurance:

5 days, 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)

 

Boats & landing craft carried:1 × Cutter Boat – Over the Horizon – Jet-drive

 

Complement:4 officers, 20 crew

 

Sensors and processing systems:

L-3 C4ISR suite

AN/SPS-78 surface search and navigation radar

AN/SPS-50 surface search radar

AN/APX-123(V)1 IFF (ship automation provided by MTU Callosum)

 

Armament:

1 × Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm autocannon

4 × crew-served Browning M2 machine guns

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