On Aug. 25, the Coast Guard said it captured 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics valued at approximately $473 million in Port ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Officials say Calhoun is the fourth Legend-class NSC to be homeported in North Charleston, joining Coast Guard Cutters Hamilton (WMSL 753), James (WMSL 754), and Stone (WMSL 758).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...