U.S. Coast Guard Accepts Delivery of 63rd Fast Response Cutter Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. June 14, 2026 Source: US Coast Guard The U.S. Coast Guard has accepted delivery of the 63rd Fast Response Cutter (FRC), Jeffrey Palazzo (WPC 1163). Jeffrey Palazzo is the fifth FRC to be homeported in Guam, joining the recently commissioned Vincent Danz (WPC 1162). The Sentinel-class FRCs replaced the 1980s Island-class 110-foot patrol boats and possess 21st-century command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment, with improved habitability and seakeeping. The U.S. Coast Guard has ordered 77 FRCs to date to perform a range of missions, including countering illicit maritime activities, search and rescue, bilateral and multilateral international operations, and the national defense of ports, waterways, and coastal areas. Each FRC is named after an enlisted U.S. Coast Guard hero who performed extraordinary service in the line of duty. Jeffrey Palazzo was a New York City firefighter and U.S. Coast Guard reservist who made the ultimate sacrifice on Sept. 11, 2001, while responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center. Palazzo served in the Coast Guard Reserves as a Machinery Technician 1st Class aboard the cutter Cape Horn out of Station Rockaway, responding to many high-profile incidents and large-scale emergencies. In 1993, he was on the first Coast Guard boat to discover the Golden Venture, a cargo ship that ran aground carrying more than 200 Chinese immigrants and was credited with saving dozens of people from the water. After eight years of active duty in the Coast Guard, Palazzo joined the New York City Fire Department in 1996 while continuing to serve in the Reserves. In the spring of 2001, he joined Staten Island's elite Rescue Squad 5. On Sept. 11, Palazzo responded to the World Trade Center as part of the massive emergency response. He and 10 members of Rescue Squad 5 served their last shift that day. Hi