A small boat crew from U.S. Coast Guard cutter Donald Horsley pursues suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Oct. 3, 2018. (Courtesy Air Station Elizabeth City/U.S. Coast Guard) Editor’s note: ...
NORTH CHARLESTON — Four locally based Coast Guard ships contributed to record-breaking seizures of cocaine and other illegal drugs in 2025, mainly during patrols of the Caribbean and eastern Pacific ...
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10) responds to a request for assistance from an Australian-owned cruise ship stuck in the ice along the Ross Sea amid Operation Deep Freeze 2026 on the cutter’s 50th birthday, ...
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter and its crew returned to California on Monday following a 119-day deployment that culminated in the largest maritime drug seizure in nearly two decades. According to Fox News ...
Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources. For the most part, people captured by the Coast ...
The pre-dawn Caribbean waters were deceptively calm as the US Coast Guard cutter cut through the darkness, its crew preparing for what would become one of the most significant maritime interdictions ...
The U.S. Coast Guard authenticated the keels for future Coast Guard cutters Allen Thiele, Fred Permenter and Samuel Wilson on Friday in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The cutters are the first three of 30 ...