The Coast Guard found the wreck of one of its legendary cutters
The U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear was one of the most storied ships in U.S. military history and the most famous in the history of the Coast Guard. It mysteriously foundered…
Coast Guard starts the new fiscal year with big narco sub busts
After several years of increases, Coast Guard seizures of cocaine at sea declined slightly during fiscal year 2019, but that fiscal year ended and the 2020 fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1, 2019, and runs to Sept. 30, 2020, began with major busts.…
US Coast Guard busts another cocaine-carrying ‘narco sub’
Coast Guard crew members aboard the cutter Valiant intercepted a self-propelled semi-submersible carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean, arresting four suspected smugglers in the process.
The 40-foot vessel, of…
‘America’s Tall Ship’ makes first visit to Norway since 1963
It’s not necessarily the ship that comes to mind when you think about America flexing its muscles abroad to project seapower and dominance.
But when the U.S. Coast Guard’s Barque Eagle, known as “America’s Tall Ship,” came into p…
The US Coast Guard is a drug busting monster
On March 22, 2019, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WMEC-902) offloaded approximately 27,000 pounds of cocaine at Base Miami Beach worth an estimated $360 million wholesale seized in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocea…
What happened when a Coast Guard icebreaker caught fire near Antarctica
During its return from an annual supply run to the McMurdo research station in Antarctica, the US Coast Guard’s only hea…
Coast Guard thinks it can only stop 25 percent of cocaine
During fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, 2018, the US Coast Guard intercepted just over 458,000 pounds of cocaine. That was the second most in a year on record, behind fiscal year 2017, when 493,000 pounds were seized, which topped the previou…
Coast Guard is patrolling deeper and has $500 million in cocaine
While scouring the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean over the past several months, the crew of the US Coast Guard cutter James seized 19,000 pounds of cocaine.
The James’s haul was about half of the 38,00o pounds of cocain…
The Coast Guard looks at another budget cut in the Arctic
The Homeland Security Appropriations Act draft that emerged from the House of Representatives in July 2018 lacked the $750 million that the Homeland Security Department requested to design and build the Coast Guard’s first new heavy polar icebreake…
Why this Coast Guard cutter was one of the most legendary ships in the service
We opened fire. . . The battle was a warm one while it lasted. . . While the fight was on, there was nothing to see but Spanish ships burning and sinking.
Ship’s Bugler Harry Neithercott, U.S. Revenue Cutter Service McCul…