According to an Austal USA news release, work just started on the Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter, Icarus, which is part of a contract to build up to 11 cutters that could bring in as much ...

They are the only two cutters on Lake Michigan. A Coast Guard cutter is any vessel more than 65 feet long. The Coast Guard deploys 12 different types of cutter.

Although the Coast Guard’s POR calls for procuring a total of 8 NSCs to replace the 12 Hamilton-class cutters, Congress through FY2019 has funded 11 NSCs, including the 10th and 11th in FY2018.

The U.S. Coast Guard will send its newest national security cutter – the 420 foot Bertholf –to the Arctic for this summer’s open water season. That’s in addition to a buoy tender and 2 ...