Coast Guard searching for shipyard worker after cruise ship Carnival Triumph breaks free from mooring

Coast Guard searching for shipyard worker after cruise ship Carnival Triumph breaks free from mooring
MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard is searching for a missing shipyard employee and responding to a report of a cruise ship adrift on the Mobile River, Wednesday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report at approximately 1:45 p.m. that a BAE Systems employee became missing after the cruise ship Carnival Triumph broke free from its moorings while in dry dock at the BAE shipyard....

Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous returns to homeport in Cape May, NJ

Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous returns to homeport in Cape May, NJ
CAPE MAY, N.J. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous, homeported at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, returned Monday following a two-month patrol of the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. During the patrol, the Vigorous crew conducted a 6-day escort of the cruise ship Carnival Triumph to a cruise ship terminal in Mobile, Ala., after Triumph became disabled...

Coast Guard Cutter involved in Carnival Triumph rescue to return to homeport in Cape May, NJ

Coast Guard Cutter involved in Carnival Triumph rescue to return to homeport in Cape May, NJ
CAPE MAY, N.J. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous, homeported at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, is scheduled to return at 12:30 p.m. Monday following a two-month patrol of the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. During the patrol, the Vigorous crew conducted a 6-day escort of the cruise ship Carnival Triumph to a cruise ship terminal in Mobile, Ala., after...

Coast Guard completes escort of cruise ship Carnival Triumph

Coast Guard completes escort of cruise ship Carnival Triumph
MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard escorted the disabled cruise ship Carnival Triumph to the Alabama Cruise Ship Terminal in Mobile Thursday evening. The tug vessel Roland Falgout and four assist tugs towed the Triumph to the Alabama Cruise Terminal following more than a 100-hour voyage from Cozumel, Mexico to Mobile. Resources used to assist the Triumph: The 210-foot Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous and...

Coast Guard medevacs 1, continues escort for Carnival Triumph

Coast Guard medevacs 1, continues escort for Carnival Triumph
MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard medevaced a female passenger from the disabled Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday afternoon. A Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat — Medium crew medevaced a female passenger who reportedly suffered a stroke and transported her to Dauphin Island to meet emergency medical services. At approximately 12:30 p.m. the tug vessel Resolve Pioneer reported a broken...

Coast Guard, NTSB launch investigation into the cruise ship Carnival Triumph engine fire

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation Tuesday into the circumstances surrounding a fire aboard the cruise ship Carnival Triumph, that occurred Sunday. The Carnival Triumph experienced an engine room fire while on a four-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, and has been without propulsion in the Gulf of Mexico since. The ship’s automatic...

Coast Guard medevacs man from cruise ship

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard medevaced a man from the cruise ship Carnival Triumph, in the Gulf of Mexico, Sunday.

Air Station New Orleans medevacs woman from cruise ship

NEW ORLEANS —The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a cruise ship approximately 120 miles southeast of Southwest Pass, Friday.