BUFFALO, N.Y. – A Canadian freighter became icebound in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall while departing Buffalo, New York, requiring help from U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard ...

(Janes/Michael Fabey) The US Coast Guard (USCG) is immediately increasing the number of cutters, aircraft ... another sighting of Russian naval vessels near Alaska ...

For over a week, a succession of the Chinese Coast Guard ships—including one of the largest Coast Guard cutters in the world—have occupied waters less than 100 miles from Zambales province on ...

A Coast Guard cutter ship has begun icebreaking operations in Duluth, Minnesota. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WLBB 30) has started clearing ice in the Duluth-Superior Harbor as part of ...

(Image courtesy of the USCG) MARQUETTE — The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy Integrated Program Office received approval Dec. 19 to begin building a new icebreaking ship. The polar security cutter ...

The Bristol Bay, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from Detroit, which headed Thursday toward Buffalo ... It’s unclear how long it might take to free the ship, the Coast Guard said. The lake ice this year, ...

Also making its way to Lake Erie in case more backup is needed is the Coast Guard’s 240-foot Cutter Mackinaw. That vessel is homeported in Cheboygan in Lake Huron. No injuries or ship damage has ...

A Coast Guard cutter started breaking up ice around the ship by Thursday afternoon. Efforts to free the ship were paused for the night and were scheduled to resume Friday morning, according to the ...

Icebreaking efforts −including the arrival of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay to Buffalo ... so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ...

With ice starting to build up on the Great Lakes, the U.S. Coast Guard has ... The ship also takes part in retrieving aids to navigation in the fall. How big are the Cutters Katmai Bay, Mobile ...