[2][5] Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Congressional Representative for the district containing the vessel's base, met the ship when she arrived in Miami on January 27, 2013.

[6][7][8] Like her sister ships, she is equipped for coastal security patrols, interdiction of drug and people smugglers, and search and rescue.

The ramp allows the deployment and retrieval of her high speed water-jet powered pursuit boat without first coming to a stop.

On March 6, 2014, Robert Yered responded to a distress call from the ocean-going tug Patriarch, when containers on a large barge it was pushing burst into flame.

Robert Yered crew safely embarked the migrants and then sank the unsafe vessel to prevent a hazard to navigation.