Coast Guard Assets

Explore the aircraft, cutters and boats used by the Coast Guard to conduct various missions throughout the world.

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140-foot bay-class tugboat

140-foot Bay-class cutters are single-screw tugs used primarily for domestic ice breaking duties.

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75-foot river buoy tenders

The 75-foot river buoy tenders deploy aids to navigation buoys and day boards to mark river channels.

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75-foot WLIC Class

The 75-foot WLICs push either a 68- or 84-foot construction barge. The barges are equipped with cranes and other aids to navigation equipment to drive piles and work the smaller sized buoys.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico and crew repair the center entrance range of the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass, July 6, 2011. Pamlico, a 160-foot inland construction tender, homeported in New Orleans, is manned by 16 crewmembers, who construct fixed aids to navigation from Baton Rouge to the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River and its surrounding waterways.

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100-foot WLIC class

The one 100-foot WLIC, Coast Guard Cutter Smilax, pushes a 70-foot construction barge. The barges are equipped with cranes and other N aids to navigation equipment to drive piles and work the smaller sized buoys.

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160-foot WLIC class

The 160-foot WLIC class are single unit buoy tenders without barges designed to build and service shore structures and aids to navigation.

Members of the Coast Guard Cutter William Tate perform buoy tending operations on the Delaware River during a period of extreme cold, Jan. 9, 2018. The cold period caused many buoys in the upper and lower Delaware River to go off-station and require care and maintenance.

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175-foot Keeper class

The 175-foot keeper-class coastal buoy tenders are a new era in buoy tending. The keeper-class cutters serves a variety of Coast Guard missions.

The 225-foot Coast Guard Cutter Oak is underway in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 to replace seasonal aids to navigation. This was Oak's first time operating as a First Coast Guard District Cutter in Northeast waters as the cutter recently moved to its Newport, Rhode Island, homeport from Charleston, South Carolina.

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225-foot Juniper class

Juniper class buoy tenders are seagoing Coast Guard cutters responsible for maintaining short-and long-range aids to navigation such as fixed structures an buoys.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Active, a 210-foot medium endurance Reliance-class cutter homeported in Port Angeles, Washington, interdicts more than 1 ton of cocaine from four suspected drug smugglers during a counter-narcotics patrol in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Friday, May 18, 2018. Cutters like Active routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea to perform defense operations, alien migrant interdiction, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the U.S. mainland.

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210-foot Reliance class

The reliance-class cutters work alongside the famous-class ships, carry out primarily law enforcement and search and rescue missions.

A Coast Guard Station Boston crew transits between Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba and Coast Guard Cutter Spencer in Boston on Nov. 24, 2014. The Escanaba and Spencer are 270-foot Famous-class medium endurance cutters.

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270-foot Famous Class

Famous-class cutters are the most modern and advanced medium endurance cutters, with modern weapons and sensor suite.

The Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley is pictured before a Bering Sea patrol with a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-66 Dolphin helicopter embarked on the stern of the cutter, July 27th, 2018. During Bering Sea patrols the cutter’s crew conducts boarding evolutions of the fishing fleet and can respond to search and rescue cases as needed.

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282-foot Alex Haley

The Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley is the largest and newest medium endurance cutter in the Coast Guard's fleet.