WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard and Northrop Grumman laid the keel for the future Coast Guard Cutter Stratton, the service’s third National Security Cutter, at 1 p.m. Monday at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding’s Gulf Coast shipyard, Pascagoula, Miss., ceremoniously marking the beginning of Stratton’s construction.
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Coast Guard to test new radar with Vessel Monitoring System
BOSTON – The Coast Guard will conduct a two-week test and evaluation of a new aircraft-mounted search radar July 21-30, 2009, affecting commercial fisherman with the Vessel Monitoring System.
Search suspended for missing Connecticut boater
NEW YORK – The search for a missing boater whose vessel was found two miles south of Charles Island near Milford, Conn., around 4:20 p.m. Saturday has been suspended as of 9 a.m. today, pending further developments.
Coast Guard to conduct voluntary commercial passenger vessel safety inspections on Lake Texoma
HOUSTON — Personnel from Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston will return to Lake Texoma from July 23-28, 2009, to conduct voluntary commercial passenger vessel safety examinations.
Coast Guard searching for 2 boaters near Fort Pierce
MIAMI – The Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission crews are searching for two overdue boaters Monday who did not return to Black Pearl Boat Ramp in Fort Pierce, Fla., Sunday.
Coast Guard medevacs man with injured finger
JUNEAU, Alaska -The Coast Guard safely medevaced a crewmember suffering a finger injury aboard the motor vessel Horizon Anchorage, a 678-foot freighter homeported in Philadelphia, today, 170 miles southwest of Sitka.