Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the National Security Cutter (NSC) USCGC Munro (WMSL-755) to the U.S. Coast Guard on December 16, 2016. Munro is scheduled to sail away in February and will be commissioned in Seattle on April 1, 2017.

«Three years ago, this ship consisted of nothing more than steel plates, raw pipe and bundled wire», said Derek Murphy, Ingalls’ NSC 6 program manager. «Since then, we’ve seen an amazing transformation, made possible by the thousands of people who poured their heart and soul into this ship. We have a mission statement in the NSC program that says during the construction of each NSC we will provide the men and women of the United States Coast Guard with the finest ship in their fleet. This excellence will be provided by our shipbuilders through working safely, attention to detail and ownership of work».
Munro is the sixth Legend-class National Security Cutter Ingalls has built for the Coast Guard. Ingalls currently has two more NSCs under construction: USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) and USCGC Midgett (WMSL-757). These ships are scheduled to be delivered in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
«This is a remarkable achievement in my career and the career of the personnel serving on Munro», said Thomas King, commanding officer of Munro. «National Security Cutters are a great benefit to the Coast Guard because they have the capabilities to fulfill missions while acting independently offshore».
Munro is named to honor Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro, the Coast Guard’s sole recipient of the Medal of Honor. He was mortally wounded on September 27, 1942, while evacuating a detachment of Marines from Guadalcanal.
Legend-class NSCs are the flagships of the Coast Guard’s cutter fleet. Designed to replace the 378‐foot/115-meter Hamilton-class high-endurance cutters that entered service in the 1960s, they are 418 feet/127 m long with a 54-foot/16-meter beam and displace 4,500 long tons/4,572 metric tons with a full load. They have a top speed of 28 knots/32 mph/52 km/h, a range of 12,000 NM/13,809 miles/22,224 km, an endurance of 60 days and a crew of 110.
NSCs are capable of meeting all maritime security mission needs required of the high-endurance cutter. They include an aft launch and recovery area for two rigid hull inflatable boats and a flight deck to accommodate a range of manned and unmanned rotary wing aircraft. The Legend class is the largest and most technologically advanced class of cutter in the Coast Guard, with robust capabilities for maritime homeland security, law enforcement, marine safety, environmental protection and national defense missions. NSCs play an important role enhancing the Coast Guard’s operational readiness, capacity and effectiveness at a time when the demand for their services has never been greater.

Facts
Displacement | 4,500 long tons/4,572 metric tons |
Length | 418 feet/127 m |
Beam | 54 feet/16 m |
Speed | 28 knots/32 mph/52 km/h |
Range | 12,000 NM/13,809 miles/22,224 km |
Endurance | 60 days |
Crew | 110 |
Equipped with | Mk-110 57-mm turret mounted gun |
6 × 12.7-mm/.50 caliber machine guns | |
3D air search radar | |
2 level 1, class 1 aircraft hangers | |
A stern launch ramp for mission boats |

Ship list
Ship | Hull Number | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned |
Bertholf | WMSL-750 | 03-29-2005 | 09-29-2006 | 08-04-2008 |
Waesche | WMSL-751 | 09-11-2006 | 07-12-2008 | 05-07-2010 |
Stratton | WMSL-752 | 07-20-2009 | 07-23-2010 | 03-31-2012 |
Hamilton | WMSL-753 | 09-05-2012 | 08-10-2013 | 12-06-2014 |
James | WMSL-754 | 05-17-2013 | 05-03-2014 | 08-08-2015 |
Munro | WMSL-755 | 10-07-2013 | 09-12-2015 | |
Kimball | WMSL-756 | 03-04-2016 | 12-17-2016 | |
Midgett | WMSL-757 | |||
Stone | WMSL-758 |