U.S. Coast Guard|May 08, 2009
At the crack of dawn in early March, the captain of the fishing vessel Mar-Gun gave a call over VHF radio to the Coast Guard saying his vessel had run aground on St. George Island, Alaska, with five crew members aboard and was carrying nearly 19,000 gallons of fuel.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 08, 2009
Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr., commander of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area here, has temporarily relieved the commanding officer of a Boston-based cutter citing a loss in confidence in the officer’s ability to command.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 08, 2009
The U.S. Coast Guard took final acceptance of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, the first of the Legend class National Security Cutter fleet, at the cutter's homeport of Alameda, Calif.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 07, 2009
Coast Guard rescue crews are continuing to search for a 27-year-old man who was reported missing after not returning from a fishing trip in a small row boat near West Haven, Conn.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 07, 2009
The Coast Guard is scheduled to host Friday Delaware Senator Thomas R. Carper at Coast Guard Station Indian River, Del., to announce the award of $11.5 million the Coast Guard will receive as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 07, 2009
The Coast Guard medically evacuated a man from a boat about 30 miles west of Venice.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 06, 2009
The last 44-foot motor life in service in the Coast Guard is scheduled to be decommissioned during a ceremony in Chatham, Mass.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 06, 2009
Coast Guard Sector North Carolina, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, and friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will conduct the annual British Cemetery Memorial Services at Buxton and at Ocracoke. The public is welcome to attend.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 06, 2009
The Coast Guard is towing a disabled sailing vessel to Charleston Marina in Charleston, Ore.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 05, 2009
The Coast Guard suspended the search for a boater who went missing north of Catalina Island.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 05, 2009
Divers from the Sitka Fire Dept. Rescue Dive Team located the body of 16 year-old Austin Kesterson near the Gustavus pier where his jeep was found abandoned in the waters of Icy Passage.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 05, 2009
The Coast Guard helped a crew member who had fallen ill aboard a fishing research vessel, about 17 miles south of Portland, Maine.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 04, 2009
U.S. Coast Guard Station Port Huron rescued two men, from their sinking 10-foot sailboat approximately 400 yards offshore, here.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 04, 2009
The Coast Guard rescued a 43-year-old man Monday around after he fell from his vessel and spent five hours treading water near Apollo Beach, Fla.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 04, 2009
The Coast Guard rescued a 17 year-old surfer offshore from Cape Kiwanda, near Pacific City, Ore.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 01, 2009
Dan Marino, National Football League Hall of Fame Quarterback, media personality, and philanthropist, has teamed up with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary to help raise awareness of safe boating practices for recreational boaters.
U.S. Coast Guard|May 01, 2009
The Center for Disease Control confirmed that a local Coast Guardsman stationed at the Port Security Unit 301 in Cape Cod, Mass., tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus.
U.S. Coast Guard|April 27, 2009
The Coast Guard responded to a boat fire near Jim Crow Point, Wash., on the Columbia River, Ore.
U.S. Coast Guard|April 30, 2009
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa is scheduled to return to Portsmouth following a busy, 61-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea.