[2][3] Rollin Fritch, like her sister Sentinel-class cutters, is designed with an endurance of five days, and 2,950 nautical miles (5,460 km).

[6][7] She is armed with a 25 mm autocannon, gyro-stabilized, and fired from a sensor equipped remote weapons station on the bridge, supplemented by four crew-served M2 Browning machine guns.

She carries a waterjet-propelled high-speed pursuit boat, deployed and retrieved via a stern launching ramp.

The homeport of Rollin Fritch and her sister ship, Lawrence O. Lawson is the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May.

In 2010, Charles "Skip" W. Bowen, who was then the United States Coast Guard's most senior non-commissioned officer, proposed that all 58 cutters in the Sentinel class should be named after enlisted sailors in the Coast Guard, or one of its precursor services, who were recognized for their heroism.