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Tending Buoys and Defending Freedom

[By William H. Thiesen, Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian] Units and personnel of the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessor services have served with distinction in every major American conflict a...

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Navy Sponsors Autonomous Boat Competition for Students

On June 24, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) held its annual RoboBoat competition for budding robotics engineers, turning a quiet park in South Daytona Beach into a h...

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Glosten Designs Passenger Vessel for Kitsap Transit

Glosten, a Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering consultancy, announces the completion of a 150-passenger-only hybrid ferry design for Kitsap Transit, a public transportation agency...

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W?rtsil? 31 Main Engine to Power New Fuel Efficient Fishing Vessel

The technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to provide its Wärtsilä 31 main engine, the propulsion machinery, and the auxiliary engines for a new state-of-the-art pelagic trawler under constructio...

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Navy Calls Off Search for Second Man Overboard

On Sunday, the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Coast Guard suspended a search for an unnamed Navy sailor who went missing Thursday night. The sailor, a crewmember on the cruiser USS Shiloh, was presumed ov...

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ABB to Undertake Major Modernizations of Canadian Coast Guard Ships

ABB will modernize 10 out of 14 Medium Icebreakers and High Endurance Multi Task Canadian Coast Guard ships to extend operational life of the vessels by another 20 years. These ships undertake major s...

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Battle of Midway Remembered 75 Years On

One of the most important battles in U.S. naval history, the Battle of Midway was the turning point in World War II’s Pacific Theater. 75 years ago, on June 4, 1942, the fate of the Pacific rested on...

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Tanker Investments Merges with Teekay Tankers

Tanker Investments has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Teekay Tankers to create the world’s largest publicly-traded mid-sized conventional tanker company with combined total assets o...

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World War II Merchant Mariners Push for Compensation

A group of veterans who served in the American Merchant Marine during World War II were on Capitol Hill earlier this month, meeting with members of Congress to urge passage of a bill that would provid...

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Launch of Research Vessel, W.T. Hogarth

The R/V W.T. Hogarth — designed and engineered by Boksa Marine Design — was christened and launched on May 23, 2017.  The 78’ coastal class research vessel is the newest addition to the Florida Ins...