USCGC Reef Shark is the 69th Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat to be built. Her home port is Juneau, Alaska, where she is moored in Auke Bay.
USCGC Reef Shark
Reef Shark on her commissioning day, 23 March 2009
Reef Shark patrolling Boston Harbor in 2018
533 pounds of cocaine seized by Reef Shark off Vieques in March 2014
Marine Protector-class patrol boat
The Marine Protector-class patrol boat is a type of coastal patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard. The 87-foot-long (27 m) vessels are based on the Stan 2600 design by Damen Group and were built by Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, Louisiana. Each boat is named after sea creatures that fly or swim.
The class leader USCGC Barracuda underway. Note the boat launching ramp at the stern. The fifty caliber machine guns mount on pintles, port and starboard, just forward of the red stripe. The black smudge in the hull abaft the superstructure is the exhaust of the port engine.
USCGC Sailfish in New York City
USCGC Cochito launching a small boat from the stern ramp