Coast Guard plans call for procuring a combination of National Security Cutters (NSCs), Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs) and Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as replacements for 90 earlier-generation Coast ...
Maine's Bath Iron Works and two other shipyards have been given the green light to proceed with design work on an offshore patrol cutter for the Coast Guard. Two other shipbuilders protested the fixed ...
An estimated $20 billion Coast Guard shipbuilding program that has failed to put a cutter into service amid ballooning costs and lengthy delays must have better oversight, according to a government ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Coast Guard Cutter Stone and its crew returned to its home base in North Charleston Wednesday after leading U.S. Navy and Royal Canadian Navy assets on a mission for homeland ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun arrived Sunday at its new homeport in North Charleston after supporting missions throughout the agency’s seventh and eighth ...
The Coast Guard decommissioned the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Orcas (WPB1327) during a ceremony, Tuesday. Rear Adm. Charles Fosse, the commander of the Thirteenth Coast Guard District, presided over the ...
The U.S. Coast Guard’s CGC Harriet Lane and its crew arrived this week in its new home port of Honolulu. The cutter sailed more than 8,000 nautical miles over 36 days from Portsmouth to join the Coast ...
The term "cutter" has roots in maritime history, long before the modern Coast Guard even existed. In the 18th century, a cutter was a specific type of small, fast sailing ship, usually with a single ...
The Coast Guard’s program of record (POR), which dates to 2004, calls for procuring 8 National Security Cutters (NSCs), 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), and 65 Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as ...