Called "WLBs" by the Coast Guard, these vessels maintain the nation's buoys and other navigational aids used by all ships entering our ports. By 1994, many of the existing seagoing buoy tenders ...

DULUTH, Minn.– 48 Coast Guard members boarded the SPAR in Duluth Tuesday.  The 235-foot buoy-tender vessel is able to slice ...

Oceanographic research buoys, whether installed in the harbor, bay or offshore, are considered Private Aids To Navigation (PATON) and as such are regulated by U.S. Coast Guard under Title 33 of the ...

Twenty-nine cadets from the Carson High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) attended and learned ...

THUNDER BAY — Icebreaking operations have started at Thunder Bay. The US Coast Guard cutter Spar arrived in port Tuesday for ...

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley, is an ice-breaking buoy tender home-ported at Canadian Coast Guard Base Parry Sound in Ontario, Canada and was nearing Buffalo early Saturday morning.