In June, the former U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Mellon —one of 12 Hamilton -class high-endurance cutters—arrived in Vietnam ...

The cutter and its helicopter crew pushed through storms to capture drugs being smuggled to relay points in the eastern Pacific.

Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La. is ramping up to continue production of the U.S. Coast Guard’s fast response cutters (FRC) ...

A Coast Guard cutter intercepted 37 migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally aboard a 33-foot vessel on Saturday, approximately seven nautical miles off Point Loma, officials ...

The Coast Guard intercepted a boat with 10 individuals near Point Loma, all claiming to be of Mexican nationality, in a ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The United States Coast Guard Cutter Forward is back home in Hampton Roads. The crew returned to Portsmouth on Monday after spending 79 days patrolling the eastern Pacific ...

Coast Guard cutters are versatile vessels designed to perform a wide range of missions, including maintaining aids to navigation (referred to as ATON), law enforcement, search and rescue, and ...

Valiant spent its first 24 years in the Coast Guard Eighth District area of responsibility while being homeported in ...

A Coast Guard cutter stopped a boat suspected of smuggling 11 people claiming Mexican nationality Saturday morning about 22 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — In the past few days, the United States Coast Guard in Southern California has intercepted several boats carrying dozens of migrants. After a suspected smuggling boat ...

Since then, "cutter" became a catch-all term for any Coast Guard vessel over 65 feet that has a permanently assigned crew and the facilities to support extended operations at sea. It doesn't refer ...