The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its report into an October 11, 2020, incident in which an offshore supply vessel (OSV) twice collided with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter.
The first collision occurred near Texas Point, Texas, when the OSV Cheramie Bo-Truc No. 33 collided with the Harry Claiborne, a 175-foot coastal buoy tender, when traveling outboard for sea in the Sabine Pass.
The OSV subsequently ran aground. The crew attempted to refloat the vessel,...
The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy (WAGB-20) suffered a fire in one of the ship’s main propulsion motors on Aug. 18 while underway in the Arctic.
No injuries were reported.
The Healy was 60 nautical miles off of Seward, Alaska, en route to the Arctic when an electrical fire was reported at 9:30 p.m. A fire team disconnected the affected motor and the fire was extinguished by 9:56 p.m. The cause of the fire is currently unknown.
The propulsion motors are critical equipment that use the power...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/icebreaker-healy-suffers-fire-loss-of-propulsion/
The crew of Coast Guard cutter Valiant (WMEC-621) returned home to Naval Station Mayport, Fla., in Jacksonville Monday after completing a nine-week patrol conducting operations in the Windward Passage between Haiti and Cuba in support of Coast Guard 7th District and Operation Southeast Watch.
The Valiant patrolled over 11,000 nautical miles in the Caribbean, working closely with the Navy and Coast Guard cutters Diligence (WMEC-616), Resolute (WMEC-620), Kathleen Moore (WPC-1109), William Trump...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/cutter-valiant-returns-to-florida-after-60-day-patrol/
When the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Smilax (WLIC-315) was commissioned in 1944, allied forces had landed at Normandy five months earlier and had another 10 months of fighting ahead before victory in Europe and the Pacific would bring World War II to an end.
With nearly seven and half decades of water in her wake, the Smilax is the oldest Coast Guard cutter in service today. She turns 75 on Nov. 1.
The septuagenarian inland construction tender was enthroned as the Coast Guard “Queen of the Fleet” in...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/oldest-coast-guard-cutter-to-turn-75-in-november/
The Coast Guard commissioned the first California-based 154-foot fast response cutter in San Pedro on Thursday.
The Coast Guard cutter Forrest Rednour is the first of four Sentinel-class FRCs to be homeported at Base Los Angeles-Long Beach.
Three additional FRCs are scheduled to be commissioned by summer of 2019. While these ships will be based in San Pedro, they will operate throughout the 11th Coast Guard District, which includes all of California and international waters off of Mexico and...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-commissions-first-california-frc/