There are several classes of Coast Guard ships that are called cutters. Learn where the name came from and why it's used so ...

Open warfare is always harrowing, but the Cold War was horrifically tense ... USCGC Mellon fired one in 1990, the only Coast Guard cutter ever to do so. After the USSR collapsed, the missiles ...

As tensions rise to grab Arctic resources, the U.S. is racing to construct a new icebreaker vessel that can secure a foothold ...

Argus (WMSM-915), the first ship of the heritage class of medium endurance offshore patrol cutters ... Coast Guard today, we are less ready than at any other time in our history since World War ...