USCGC Charles David Jr.
2013 Sentinel-class cutter
USCGC Charles David Jr is the seventh Sentinel-class cutter.
Upon her commissioning she was assigned to serve in Key West, Florida, as the first of six vessels to be based there.
She was delivered to the Coast Guard, for testing, on August 17, 2013.
She was officially commissioned on November 16, 2013.
Namesake
The vessel is named after Charles Walter David Jr., who served as a Steward's Mate 1st Class in the United States Coast Guard.
David was serving aboard USCGC Comanche escorting a convoy that included Dorchester.
David was one of the Comanche crew members who volunteered to dive into the frigid waters to rescue exhausted crew and passengers from Dorchester. These crewmen used the newly devised "rescue retriever" technique whereby the rescuer dived overboard and tied a line around a hypothermic survivor who was then hoisted aboard the cutter.
David came down with pneumonia after the exertion of the rescue, dying a few days later. He was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.
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