{"id":9099,"date":"2016-08-10T01:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2016-08-10T01:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:03:43","slug":"brick-pd-to-acquire-former-coast-guard-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/08\/brick-pd-to-acquire-former-coast-guard-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick PD to Acquire Former Coast Guard Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9100\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9100\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A 25-foot Defender-class response boat. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard)\" width=\"618\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 25-foot Defender-class response boat. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials signed off Tuesday night on the purchase of a former U.S. Coast Guard vessel which will be used by the Brick Township Police Department\u2019s marine unit.<\/p>\n<p>The boat is a 25-foot response boat of the <em>Defender<\/em> class, which are still in use by the Coast Guard across the nation, including at the Manasquan Inlet and Barnegat Light stations in Ocean County. Built by SAFE Boats International, the Defenders are high-speed, rigid-hull aluminum\u00a0boats that have twin engines and can travel up to 46 knots (52 m.p.h.).\u00a0Though similar in appearance to an inflatable boat, its collar is made of rigid polyethylene foam.<\/p>\n<p>The boat, a 2010 model that includes the boat, motors and trailer, will be acquired for $40,000, said Mayor John Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Jim Fozman said Chief James Riccio requested the boat as an upgrade to the department\u2019s current fleet since the Defender is capable of operating in rough weather. Fozman said the boat will be funded through the township\u2019s capital budget, using dollars that were saved by way of other projects being completed for less than expected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/08\/brick-pd-to-acquire-former-coast-guard-boat\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials signed off Tuesday night on the purchase of a former U.S. Coast Guard vessel which will be used by the Brick Township Police Department\u2019s marine unit. The boat is a 25-foot response boat of the Defender class, which are still in use by the Coast Guard across the nation, including at the Manasquan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2,3],"tags":[24,2347,2349,2348,536],"class_list":["post-9099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","category-government","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-defender-class","tag-marine-unit","tag-response-boat","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USCG_25_foot_defender.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2mL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}