The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...

In a display of maritime vigilance, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Thetis has successfully completed a rescue operation in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, providing much-needed assistance to three ...

MANILA, May 5 (Reuters) - The Philippines has deployed a coast guard vessel and an aircraft to challenge and escort a Chinese research ship it said was conducting illegal marine scientific ...

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — The Coast Guard Cutter Alert WMEC 630 crew returned to their home port in Cape Canaveral on Friday, following a 55-day deployment in the Gulf of ...

As the US Coast Guard seeks to build new icebreakers, it must rely on its two existing polar icebreaking ships, including Healy , pictured here transiting the Gulf of Alaska in July 2022.

John Mazzy, whose hometown was not provided, was found clinging to a channel marker and suffering from hypothermia-like symptoms, the Coast Guard said in a statement Thursday night. At 2:08 a.m ...

On 23 November 1970, however, a Lithuanian seaman, Simas Ionovich Kudirka, attempted to defect to the United States via the Coast Guard cutter "Vigilant," and his request for asylum was denied. He was ...

The US Coast Guard (USCG) says one of its patrol boats pulled in a major haul this month, uncovering 10,000 pounds of cocaine worth $74 million on a "suspicious fishing vessel" approximately 1,265 ...

Editor's Note: What defines the ordinary? And what makes it great? For the China Coast Guard (CCG) officers stationed at Huangyan Dao, the ordinary lies in their quiet, steadfast watch ...

The Army National Guard has made major strides in clearing a mountain of unpaid enlistment bonuses that had lingered for years, new service component data shows. As of January 2024, it owed ...

The question being posed by the United States Coast Guard is whether I still need that navaid, or Aid To Navigation (ATON) as buoys and markers are officially known, or can marine electronics ...