Overview
- The U.S. Coast Guard formally commissioned the USCGC Vincent Danz on Friday, May 22, 2026, at a ceremony in New York City attended by the cutter’s sponsor, widow Angela Donohue, and other family members.
- The ship was named for Vincent Danz, a Marine, NYPD Emergency Services Unit officer and Coast Guard reservist who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and was posthumously awarded the NYPD Medal of Honor.
- A recovered piece of World Trade Center steel has been permanently mounted in a glass display at the cutter’s entrance so visitors and crew can see the material on board.
- The Vincent Danz is the 62nd Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter, a 154-foot patrol boat with advanced command, communications and over-the-horizon boat deployment capability that replaces older 110-foot Island-class patrol boats.
- The cutter will be homeported in Guam and is beginning a multi-week transit to the Western Pacific to conduct maritime security, counter-illicit activity and search-and-rescue missions as part of the Coast Guard’s broader fleet modernization funded in the FY2025 budget.