Passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” this summer has provided a jolt to the U.S. Coast Guard‘s shipbuilding program as it ...

Austal announced that Austal USA has secured a contract option from the U.S. Coast Guard to build the second Heritage-class ...

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 ...

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

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) ...

The 154 foot patrol craft is the 10th vessel in the Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class fast-response cutter program. The Coast Guard took delivery on June 25.

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.

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 ...

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 Sentinel-class fast-response cutter USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr (WPC 1147) seized advanced conventional weapons and other lethal aid originating in Iran and bound to Houthi ...

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 ...