March 4, 2017, the United States Coast Guard seventh new national security patrol boat (NSCs) Kimball (WMSL 756) named. The naming ceremony was held at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) shipyard in mississippi.
GE is equipped with a power plant propulsion system for the U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat
According to HII introduction, Kimball national security patrol boat for the first three to Sumner I. Kimball named ship. The first Kimball (WSC/WMEC-143) national security patrol boat was commissioned in 1927 and retired in 1968. The second ship's name was SS Sumner Kimball (EC2-S-C1); it was sunk by a torpedo from the Nazi submarine U-960, resulting in the death of the 64 Americans (I.).
According to the GE marine solutions company, all new Legend class national security patrol boats will be equipped with a GE LM2500 gas turbine and 2 diesel engine consisting of a combined diesel and diesel power plant (CODAG) propulsion system.
GE is equipped with a power plant propulsion system for the U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat
The LM2500 gas turbine for the class Legend national security patrol craft is manufactured by Evan plant in Ohio, GE. There have been 35 countries of the Navy 500 ships around the world, including patrol boats, destroyers and cruisers and light cruisers, frigates, amphibious ships and aircraft carriers with more than 1 thousand and 400 sets of GE gas turbine, total running time has been more than 14 million hours.