AUGUST 9, 2016 —Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports the successful completion of builder’s sea trials for the company’s sixth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC), Munro (WMSL 755). The ship, built
JULY 26, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard’s sail training barque Eagle is to be repowered with a Series 8V 4000 MTU propulsion engine for use when not operating under sail. The
JUNE 21, 2016 — A U.S. District Court jury in Seattle yesterday convicted two shipping companies and two engineers on 12 felony counts related to the illegal discharge of oily wastewater from
JUNE 1, 2015 — Charles D. Michel, vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, was promoted to the rank of admiral in a ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters today. Following passage of
MAY 27, 2016 — The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved the FY2017 Defense Appropriations Bill and the FY2017 Homeland Security Bill. The defense bill recommends $20.5 billion for Navy shipbuilding, an increase
MARCH 23, 2016 — Due to an increase in reported electrical deficiencies on commercial vessels, the U.S. Coast Guard District 9 (Great Lakes) is warning commercial vessel owners to inspect their vessels’
MARCH 16, 2015 — The Coast Guard reports that responders have extinguished a fire that broke out Tuesday on an oil production platform in Berry Lake Canal in Bayou Sorrel, Iberville Parish,
MARCH 16,2016 — An Argentine Coast Guard (Prefectura Naval Argentina) patrol vessel, the GC- 28 Prefecto Derbes, has fired on and sunk a Chinese flag vessel, the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010,
MARCH 8, 2016 — Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCG cutter Donald Horsley, the 17th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the United States Coast Guard. Each FRC is named for an enlisted
MARCH 7, 2016 — U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have introduced the bipartisan Coast Guard Icebreaker Recapitalization Act. The legislation would authorize $150 million for
