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An April 2010 photograph of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig after the explosion that set it on fire and caused its record-breaking oil spill. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 20, 2025

15th anniversary of Deepwater Horizon and the Coast Guard’s spill response mission

"Even Exxon Valdez pales in comparison to the volume, scale, number of Coast Guard resources, how much time has been devoted to [Deepwater Horizon]—all far exceed any previous event." — CAPT Duke Walker, Federal On-Scene Coordinator, U.S. Coast Guard, 2012

U.S. Navy, Coast Guard personnel posing with some of the captured gear left behind by the Nazi saboteurs. (Franklin Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY)

June 13, 2025

Bags of clams? Not likely. Here’s how a Coast Guard Seaman Recruit altered the course of World War II

Jack Cullen, 21, thwarted a Nazi plan to sabotage America’s shoreside infrastructure.

The fog of war on D-Day as Allied landing craft put ashore troops on the Normandy beaches. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 6, 2025

Eddy Priestly and D-Day’s Saviors

Over the course of the Normandy invasion, Flotilla One’s cutters saved 1,438 men.

The Galveston waterfront was devastated by the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. (Library of Congress)

May 30, 2025

Death, destruction at Galveston Lifesaving Station

Hurricane season is fast approaching (June 1st). Today we take a look back at one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

Lone survivor of the 52-foot Triumph, Gordon Huggins attends an anniversary memorial service in 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard)

May 23, 2025

Reflecting on the 1961 Triumph-Mermaid tragedy

“There was no sign of anybody inside. I just hung on and prayed as the ship filled with water.”

USCGC Naushon (WPB 1311) conducts a familiarization patrol in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Oct. 21, 2008. Patrols like this one demonstrate the Coast Guard's dedication to ports, waterways and coastal security, regardless of the wind, water or seas. This photo won second place in the 2009 Coast Guard Photo Contest. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Logan Wright)

May 16, 2025

Honoring the legacy of the Island-Class patrol boats

The last of the Service's 110-foot Island-Class Patrol Boats, the CGC Liberty, CGC Mustang and CGC Naushon, were decommissioned May 14, 2025. This is their legacy.

Albatross 2125 before adoption of the Coast Guard “Racing Stripe” on all fixed-wing aircraft.

May 16, 2025

Into the eye of a storm on the wings of an Albatross

The heroic rescue of the Dell G fishing vessel crew during Hurricane Laurie.

May 9, 2025

Hero MK1 Charles Sexton

“Keep bright his memory so that next time someone asks who are your heroes, you won’t hesitate to answer Petty Officer Sexton.” - Rear Adm. Joseph Vorbach

Arcturus flying in formation with other USCG flying boats above a 165-foot cutter. (Coast Guard Collection)

May 2, 2025

Arcturus: A distinguished amphibian in the history of Coast Guard aviation

Read about the first aviation rescue to receive the Gold Lifesaving Medal and the Coast Guard’s Flying Lifeboats; state-of-the-art aircraft capable of performing rescues by landing on the open sea.

Artwork of the night the Marine Electric shipwreck and the incident’s lasting impact on the Coast Guard. The converted WWII-era ship capsized 30 miles off the Virginia coast on Feb. 12, 1983, and brought about drastic changes in the Coast Guard, including revamped marine safety procedures and the implementation of rescue swimmers. (U.S. Coast Guard illustrations by Petty Officer 2nd Class Corinne Zilnicki)

April 18, 2025

The shipwreck that changed the Coast Guard forever

The Coast Guard continues to improve its marine safety program to this day to ensure a safe marine environment. This article originally appeared in the Coast Guard Compass in 2019.