Cutters and Patrol Boats

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.

The fire damaged the icebreaker's starboard propulsion motor, disabling the ship's right shaft and propeller.

Video shows the crew of the Cutter Harriet Lane removing 5,000 pounds of cocaine from the semi-submersible vessel.

Coast Guard's New Plan for Next-Gen Cutter Contracts Will Prevent Delays, Commandant Says