Coast Guard Cutter Bear returns home
The crew of USCGC Bear (WMEC 901) returns to home port, June 22, 2023, at Coast Guard Base Portsmouth. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kate Kilroy)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 910) returned home to Coast Guard Base Portsmouth, Thursday, following a 65-day Caribbean Sea patrol.
While underway in the Seventh Coast Guard District’s area of responsibility...
Coast Guard offloads more than $186 million in illegal narcotics
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Bear stands amongst 14,153 pounds of interdicted narcotics at Miami, Florida, June 16, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Cutter Bear crew member)
Miami— The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) offloaded more than 14,153 pounds of cocaine worth more than $186 million in Miami, Friday.
The offloaded drugs were interdicted during nine separate cases in the international...
Coast Guard Cutter Bear returns home from 60-day deployment
Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) and its crew approach the pier in Portsmouth, Va., Feb. 15, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Hillard)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) returned to their homeport in Portsmouth Wednesday after completing a 60-day deployment in the Florida Straits and Windward Passage.
Bear’s crew supported Homeland...
Coast Guard repatriates 83 people to Haiti
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West watchstanders received a notification from a good Samaritan of a sailing vessel about four miles southeast of Key Largo, Florida, Jan. 3, 2023. The people were repatriated to Haiti on Jan. 9, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Bear’s crew repatriated 83 Haitians to Haiti, Monday, following interdictions off Florida’s coast.
A Coast...
Coast Guard repatriates 63 people to Haiti
Coast Guard Cutter Bear’s crew stop a grossly overloaded sailing vessel about 25 miles east of Punta Maisi, Cuba, Dec. 25, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Cutter Bear’s crew)
MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Kathleen Moore’s crew repatriated 63 Haitians to Haiti, Friday, following an interdiction off Cuba’s coast.
A Coast Guard Operations Bahamas, Turks and Caicos law enforcement...
Cutter Bear returns home after 74-day deployment
The Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) approaches the pier in Portsmouth, Virginia, Monday. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Hillard)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) returned to their homeport in Portsmouth Tuesday, after a 74-day patrol in the northern regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
During the deployment, Bear sailed more than 10,000...
Revenue Cutter Bear located, ending decades-long mystery
U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear in the Arctic. (USCG photo)
For nearly two decades, a team of researchers from NOAA, U.S. Coast Guard and partnering academic institutions had been on a complex quest to solve the mystery of the storied U.S. Revenue Cutter (USRC) Bear’s final resting place.
Today at a press event in Boston, Rear Adm. Nancy Hann, on behalf of NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard, announced that the...
Cutter Bear returns home after interdicting more than $140 million of illicit drugs
Coast Guard Cutter Bear personnel offloaded approximately 2,300 lbs of cocaine worth more than $43.7 million at Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April 20, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) returned home to Portsmouth Sunday following an 86-day counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific...
Coast Guard Cutter Bear receives new commander
Coast Guard Cmdr. Jeff Ferlauto salutes Cmdr. Donald Terkanian during a change of command ceremony aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bear in Portsmouth, Virginia, Sept. 16, 2020. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Guy Brunell III.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Cmdr. Jeff Ferlauto relieved Cmdr. Donald Terkanian as commander of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC 901) during a change of command ceremony...
