Cutters and Patrol Boats

The commander of the National Security Cutter James has been reassigned as the service investigates an incident on the vessel...

Before the War of 1812, revenue cutters enforced trade laws and interdicted smuggling.

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz announced that the new Polar Security Cutter will be named Sentinel.

The nation's only heavy icebreaker, the 46-year-old Polar Star, supports the annual resupply mission for McMurdo Station.

The legend of the Bear is so ingrained in Coast Guard lore that the sports teams at the Coast Guard Academy are named the...

The nine men and four women were taken aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis.

The 110-foot patrol boat, originally based out of Highlands, New Jersey, is scheduled to be decommissioned this summer.

The Coast Guard will say goodbye Saturday to the last of its workhorse open-ocean cutters of the past 50 years.

There is a reason the Navy and Coast Guard post armed guards on shark watch during swim calls.

A fire broke out Sunday aboard one of the Coast Guard's newest cutters, resulting in damage to its exhaust stack and hangar.