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 three 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.Coast Guard Alaska, United States Coast Guard 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.USCG Station Ketchikan, United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 15 February 2017
Homeported cutters USCGC Bailey T. Barco - Sentinel-class cutterSentinel Class vessel to be based in Ketchikan. Ketchikan Daily News, 17 December 2016 USCGC John McCormick - Sentinel-class cutter USCGC Anthony Petit (WLM-558) - Keeper-class buoy tenderDistrict Units, United States Coast Guard Seventeenth District
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External links Coast Guard Base Ketchikan - official site Coast Guard Station Ketchikan - official site