But Coast Guard officials say the Boutwell’s recent six-month deployment -- in which its crew interrupted an attack on a merchant ship by suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia -- reveals a ...

The Gasparilla Pirate Invasion is just 9 days away, and it’s estimated more than 1,300 boats, ships and yachts of all sizes will take part in this years invasion.

Coast Guard search and rescue crews rescued nine crew members from the Canadian Tall Ship Liana's Ransom on March 30, 58 miles east of Gloucester, Mass. U.S. Coast Guard District 1 — Elisha ...

The largest tall ship in U.S. government service, the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, will make a rare appearance in San Francisco when it docks at Pier 17 on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The U.S. Coast Guard increasingly is extending its operations, often venturing far from the homeland to combat the rising tides of piracy and terrorism. While the nation’s oldest seagoing service is ...

GLOUCESTER, Mass., March 31 (UPI) --The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday rescued nine people aboard a disabled tourist pirate ship amid rough waves off the coast of Massachusetts.The engines of the ...

Larry Binder of Apollo Beach, who is also part of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75, spotted the odd letter in a recent story about the harbor pilot who captains the pirate ship on parade ...

It’s not firepower but endurance that is needed to prevail over pirates. Ships can survey only a tiny swath of the sea, and previous ship-launched drones and land-based manned aircraft lack the ...

Pirates seized a ship with 24 crew members off the port of Aden on Monday and Mogadishu traders said seven additional vessels headed for the Somali capital had been hijacked over the past two days.