PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Ingalls Shipbuilding held a christening ceremony Saturday for National Security Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) -- the 10th NSC the Pascagoula shipyard has built for the U.S.

The Legend class is the largest and most technologically advanced class of cutter in the Coast Guard, with robust capabilities for maritime homeland security, law enforcement, marine safety ...

Hamilton is a Legend-class national security cutter with a crew of 130. With its robust command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment, the NSC is ...

Ingalls is the nation’s sole builder of Legend -class cutters for the Coast Guard. The shipyard has delivered nine NSCs, with two more under construction. In November 2020, NSC Stone was delivered to ...

In comparison, the long-endurance Legend class NSCs can operate at 60 or 90-day cycles, while the smaller Sentinel class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) have an endurance time of just five days.

The NSC or Legend -class cutters are the largest of several new cutter designs vessels developed as part of the Integrated Deepwater System Program, a 25-year project started in 2007 and seeking to ...

Some of the vessels apprehended by the Coast Guard Legend-class National Security Cutter Bertholf in the East China and Yellow seas may well have made an appearance in that book, the cutter's ...

It is the largest single haul of cocaine and marijuana in Coast Guard history, and it is valued at $473 million.

Legend-class cutters are 418 feet long, with a range of 12,000 miles and a crew of 60. Typically used for at-sea rescues and drug interdictions, they carry a variety of machine guns, among other ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the ...

In a speech to the crew and dignitaries, Capt. Stephen Adler of the Legend-­class cutter CGC Stratton reflected on how his crew responded to tsunamis that struck the Pacific after the eruption of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard’s newest Legend-class national security cutter, Calhoun (WMSL 759), departed from HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Sunday, November 19.