The US Coast Guard (USCG) recently disclosed its plans to accelerate the Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) and the Fast ...

The Coast Guard commissioned its 57 th Fast Response Cutter during a ceremony held at Coast Guard Base Seattle last Thursday. Coast Guard Cutter Florence Finch (WPC-1157) is the second of three ...

Bollinger Shipyards announced it has entered contract negotiations with the U.S. Coast Guard for up to 10 additional Fast ...

Patrol boat USCGC Maui (WPB 1304) and fast response cutter USCGC Robert Goldman (WPC 1142) transit the Arabian Gulf en route to Bahrain, May 24. Robert Goldman and USCGC Charles Moulthrope (WPC 1141) ...

CDR SOON: The hull of the first Fast Response Cutter, the smallest of three classes of new cutters planned to recapitalize the U.S. Coast Guard's surface fleet under the Deepwater recapitalization ...

This is the 182nd vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 56th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) delivered under the current program.

Fast Response Cutters are considerably smaller and less expensive than OPCs; they are replacing the Coast Guard’s 49 aging Island-class patrol boats.

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its 56th Fast Response Cutter and first one to be stationed in the Pacific Northwest during a ceremony held in Astoria, Ore., Thursday, marking the vessel's ...

LOCKPORT, La. (AP) — Bollinger Shipyards will build two more Fast Response Cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard, for a combined price of $80 million. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., made the ...

NEW LONDON, CT (WFSB) - A day of celebration, as the Coast Guard’s newest fast response cutter is put into service. Robert Bell is one Melvin Bell’s nine children, a more than 60-year ...

Those cutters also are scheduled for decommissioning as the Coast Guard retires the Island-class cutters and replaces them with newer 154-foot Sentinel-class fast response cutters. Two Sentinel-class ...

Coast Guard Public Information Officer CWO Donnie Brzuska said the three fast response cutters being relocated in the Mid-Atlantic region are not replacements for the 210-foot medium endurance ...