The term "cutter" has roots in maritime history, long before the modern Coast Guard even existed. In the 18th century, a cutter was a specific type of small, fast sailing ship, usually with a ...

US Coast Guard will dock five of 11 national security cutters in Charleston, an official Coast Guard Community. The city has the deepest port on the East Coast. USCG to dock 5 national security ...

The cutter anti-ship weaponry vanished immediately after Yost’s retirement as well, with Harpoon Missiles on Coast Guard cutters being mentioned as little more than an amusing curiosity by ...

The strategy, involving the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, was unveiled in 2020 in a 36-page report demonstrating a significant update to modern U.S. maritime defense and security thinking.

The U.S. Coast Guard is accepting bids to build up to eleven new Heritage class Offshore Patrol Cutters for about $411 million dollars apiece. Here's how shipbuilders can win the massive contract.

But 125 years later, his name lives on, as a recently commissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutter now carries the name Charles Moulthrope. This will be the first modern Coast Guard cutter named for an ...

March 2 (UPI) --The U.S. Coast Guard christened its ninth Legends-class National Security Cutter, the USCGC Stone, in ceremonies at Pascagoula, Miss. The vessel, formally christened on Saturday ...

A modern mid-sized Coast Guard cutter would help the service do even more, and, so far, the Coast Guard is doing exactly what it needs to do keep the Offshore Patrol Cutter on a successful path.

In a rare double commissioning, two new 418-foot Coast Guard national security cutters the largest and most technologically advanced ships in the fleet were ceremoniously brought to life and ...

The McCulloch was built in Philadelphia in 1896 for the Revenue Cutter Service, forerunner of the modern Coast Guard. The ship was assigned to service in the Pacific, but instead of sailing the ...

Admiral Robert Papp, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, walks past the Bertholf, one of the newest cutters in the fleet, after delivering the annual State of the Coast Guard address in Alameda ...