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Any Coast Guard crew with officers or petty officers assigned has law-enforcement authority (14 USC Sec. 89) and can conduct armed boardings. The Coast Guard operates 243 Cutters, [2] defined as any vessel more than 65 feet (20 m) long, that has a permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew. [3]
The Heritage-class cutter, also known as the Offshore Patrol Cutter and the Maritime Security Cutter, Medium, is a cutter class of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), developed as part of the Integrated Deepwater System Program and built by Eastern Shipbuilding [4] and Austal USA. [5] Construction of the first vessel in the class began in ...
The vessel was christened by first lady Michelle Obama in July 2010, and delivered to the Coast Guard in September 2011. [45] She is now in service in Alameda. Construction on the fourth NSC, Hamilton, began in 2011. She was delivered to the Coast Guard in September 2014. In December 2009, a fleet mix analysis phase study called for nine NSCs. [46]
Dec. 16—The cutter sailed more than 8, 000 nautical miles over 36 days from Portsmouth, Va., to join the Coast Guard's District 14, which is headquartered on Oahu and is the service's largest ...
The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter or FRC due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. [2] [3] [4] At 154 feet (46.8 m), it is similar to, but larger than, the 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era Island-class patrol boats that it replaces.
The Polar Security Cutters will be the largest icebreakers ever commissioned by the United States Coast Guard and will temporarily be the largest coast guard vessel in the world. With an overall length of 460 feet (140 m), beam of 88 feet (27 m), and a full load displacement of 22,900 long tons (23,300 t), [ 27 ] they will be bigger, wider and ...
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across several Chinese military ships in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. The ...