There are several classes of Coast Guard ships that are called cutters. Learn where the name came from and why it's used so ...

USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10) responds to a request for assistance from an Australian-owned cruise ship stuck in the ice along the Ross Sea amid Operation Deep Freeze 2026 on the cutter’s 50th birthday, ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WSML 751) returned to homeport in Alameda, Calif., on Sunday after 120 days on patrol in the Indo-Pacific region. Family and friends were there to greet the crew.

Austal USA hosted a keel laying ceremony today for the first U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at the company’s Mobile, Ala. ship manufacturing facility.

(The Center Square) — Passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” this summer has provided a jolt to the U.S. Coast Guard‘s shipbuilding program as it seeks to replace most of its aging fleet. The service’s ...

Capt. James O’Mara (left) and Capt. Rula Deisher (right) salute each other during the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro’s (WMSL 755) change of command ceremony in San Diego, May 30, 2024. Vice Adm. Andrew ...

The government-owned vessels being sent by Beijing to waters around the Japan-controlled but China-claimed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands are China Coast Guard (CCG) ships, some of which include the service’s ...