The Offshore Patrol Cutter program is delayed again. The U.S. Coast Guard’s “highest investment priority,” the $17.6 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program, faces additional delay. After blowing ...

U.S. and Taiwanese officials revealed this week that a joint exercise was held at an unspecified time between their ...

Contractor Austal USA has announced that the U.S. Coast Guard is set to receive new ships, specifically Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs). The contract covers $3.3 billion in funding for up to eleven ...

Shipbuilder CSBC Corp., Taiwan, on Tuesday handed over the fifth in a series of six 1,000-ton patrol cutters to the Coast ...

The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) today took delivery of the Penghu (澎湖), the fifth of six 1,000-tonne-class patrol cutters ordered as part of an initiative to build 141 new coast guard ships by ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant (WMEC 617) small boat crew approaches a grossly overloaded migrant vessel with 147 Haitian migrants off the Florida Keys, July 22, 2022. The Vigilant crew provided care ...

In the tense hours before the U.S. Coast Guard awarded the Offshore Patrol Cutter “Stage 2,” a $3.3 billion dollar contract to build up to 11 Heritage class Offshore Patrol Cutters, shipbuilding ...

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG) on Monday held a keel authentication ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard’s future Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), USCGC Chase (WMSM-916), at its Nelson Street ...

Eastern Shipbuilding Group has won a contract with the U.S. Coast Guard to start construction of the fourth Heritage Class offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future USCGC RUSH (WMSM 918). The offshore ...