The Coast Guard (including its heritage services) have employed boats since the beginning. Boats are just as important, if not more ...

The Coast Guard announced it interdicted a boat carrying migrants in San Diego after engaging in "disabling fire" ...

But with a top speed above 60-miles-per-hour, the three brand new high-speed boats recently added to the Coast Guard's crime fighting arsenal can outrun just about anything on the water.

A San Diego-based Coast Guard crew on May 10 stopped a vessel smuggling illegal migrants by firing four shots into the boat’s engine, putting an end to a dramatic chase.

DOLLAR BAY, MI – U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes is showing off one of its newest assets, a 45-foot jet-driven response boat that will operate on Lake Superior and connected waterways.

The Coast Guard has a long history of using small boats, in surf, to perform rescues at sea. Joshua James and the men of the U.S. Lifesaving Service pioneered this service in the 1800s.

While Coast Guard air crews often grab headlines, sometimes flying hundreds of miles offshore into unimaginable conditions to save mariners in peril, boaters in trouble closer to the coast are more ...