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April 7, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A most unusual cutter—Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard Cutter Snohomish
One cutter, two services.
March 27, 2023
Best Places to Work: The Coast Guard’s 13th District
Seattle is the heart of the 13th Coast Guard District, and it is one of the Coast Guard's best places to work! Check out this video about us and read on to learn more about why members love working here.What we do: In Seattle our crews support missions locally and internationally. Pacific Area (PACAREA) assets in the region deploy worldwide
Feb. 13, 2023
Meet the rescue swimmer who saved a man after a massive wave capsized a yacht
Coast Guard rescue swimmer reflects on first rescue in the Graveyard of the Pacific
Jan. 13, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Senior Chief Richard Dixon—heavy-weather coxswain during powerful Fourth of July
Two notable rescues in the same weekend
Oct. 17, 2022
Coast Guard mother and son reunite at LAX after three years apart
A family reunited after three years apart.
March 3, 2022
Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard, Navy host international exercise with Royal Canadian navy, and more.
Coast Guard, Navy host international exercise with Royal Canadian navy; Coast Guard Cutter Reliance returns to homeport following 52-day patrol; Coast Guard discovers illegal halibut catch near Kodiak, Alaska; Coast Guard repatriates 42 Cubans to Cuba; and Coast Guard commissions 46th Sentinel-class cutter.
Jan. 7, 2022
Coast Guard repatriates 119 Cubans to Cuba, Key West, Fla., and more.
Coast Guard repatriates 119 Cubans to Cuba, Key West, Fla; Coast Guard breaks ice in northern Michigan; Snowbound campers rescued from Oregon mountain; Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region brings awareness to dangers of colder water temperatures in Baltimore
Dec. 24, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Lest we forget—the Triumph-Mermaid tragedy 60 years ago
At approximately 4:15 p.m., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 1961, Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment, at the mouth of the Columbia River, received a radio call from Roy Gunnari, skipper of the fishing vessel Jana Jo. Gunnari advised that he was relaying a mayday call from the fishing vessel Mermaid, a 34-foot crab-fishing boat from Ilwaco, Wash., owned
Nov. 18, 2021
Frontline Focus: Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returns home after a 33-day patrol and more.
Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returns home after a 33-day patrol; 17 mariners rescued in two days highlights importance of preparation, partnerships; America's only heavy icebreaker departs Seattle homeport; bound for Antarctica; and Coast Guard, partner agencies investigating cause of Southern California pipeline fracture.
Oct. 21, 2021
Frontline Focus: Coast Guard rescues five from water offshore Freeport, Texas, and more.
Coast Guard rescues five from water offshore Freeport, Texas; Coast Guard, good Samaritan crew rescue three from fishing vessel taking on water near Cape Flattery, Wash; Coast Guard medevacs man 80 miles off Montauk, N.Y.; Coast Guard rescues man from disabled vessel near Sitka, Alaska; the Costa Rican national guard service (SNG), working with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Joint Interagency Task Force – South located and escorted a suspicious commercial fishing vessel in their waters to a local pier; Mobile Training Branch is providing training and support to foreign coastal authorities; and Coast Guard TRACEN Yorktown’s International Division
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