PORT EVERGLADES, Fla. - The Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge, the second of Coast Guard Sector Miami Beach's newest and most advanced class of cutters, arrives in Port Everglades July 30, 2012.
The Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters are designed to conduct maritime drug interdiction, alien migrant interdiction, search and rescue, national defense, homeland security, living marine resources and other Coast Guard missions.