USCGC Argus launches at the Eastern Shipbuilding Group shipyard in Panama City, Florida, October 27. Space for the rear helicopter deck and be seen to the right. Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. Each ...

An estimated $20 billion Coast Guard shipbuilding program that has failed to put a cutter into service amid ballooning costs and lengthy delays must have better oversight, according to a government ...

Austal USA hosted a keel laying ceremony today for the first U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at the company’s Mobile, Ala. ship manufacturing facility.

Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards is competing for a contract to build 11 Coast Guard cutters, a project that could bring hundreds of new jobs to the Houma-Thibodaux area. The company submitted its ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Austal USA has announced it is holding a keel laying ceremony December 8th for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter USCGC Pickering (OPC 919). Here is a ...

Austal USA held a ceremony marking the official start of construction on the first U.S. Coast Guard Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at its Mobile, Ala., shipyard. The vessel, ...

July 18, 2022: Australian shipbuilder Austal, which has one of its ship building facilities in the United States, recently won a competition to build 11 of the new Coast Guard 4,500-ton Heritage class ...