The cutter also coordinated Coast Guard efforts in Operation Baja Tempested, directing interagency elements in seven interdictions that apprehended 108 illegal alien migrants.

The Coast Guard exercised a $113.1 million contract option May 8 with Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, La., for two more Sentinel-class cutters. Sixty-seven are planned.

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa returns to their homeport in Portsmouth, Virginia following a 67-day patrol in the Florida Straits and Windward Passage, Sept. 5, 2023.

DULUTH — The commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spar, Lt. Cmdr. Joel Wright, is under investigation and has been temporarily relieved of his duties. In a news release Friday, the ...