Ingalls-built Munro commissioned

SEATTLE, Wash. - The Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755), the military service’s newest National Security Cutter (NSC), was commissioned into service here on April 1. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft presided over the ceremony, and accepting the sixth NSC into the fleet. The Munro was named in honor the CG’s only Medal of Honor recipient, Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919-42). NCCs are “state of the art platforms” that can “push our maritime borders thousands of miles beyond the homeland in order to ensure our national security and prosperity,” said Zukunft. Known as the Legend class, NSCs are designed to be the flagships of the CG fleet, and capable of executing the most challenging national security missions, including support to U.S. combatant commanders. Munro will routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea. (Source: Coast Guard 04/02/17) Gulf Coast Note: Huntington Ingalls Industries’ subsidiary Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., was awarded the $487.1 million construction contract for Munro on April 30, 2013. Construction officially began on Oct. 7, 2013, with a ceremony marking the cutting of the first 100 tons of steel. Munro was launched Sept. 12, 2015.