Non-Naval Security

The Utkilen-operated tanker Bergstraum off the coast of Norway after she suffered an onboard explosion and a subsequent fire on July 28, 2026. The blaze has since been extinguished and none of her 15-strong crew suffered injuries from the incident.
Screen capture of video footage of the drug-carrying RIB prior to its interdiction by Italian authorities
A small boat crew from the US Coast Guard fast response cutter USCGC Charles Sexton interdicts a suspected drug smuggling vessel approximately 80 miles southwest of Great Inagua, Bahamas, July 25, 2026. In coordination with the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, Sexton's crew seized approximately 2,380 pounds of presumptive marijuana worth an estimated US$2.8 million.
The US Coast Guard national security cutter USCGC Stone during builder's trials in the Gulf of Mexico
A China Coast Guard vessel (representative photo only)
Members of US Coast Guard Station Bellingham and the Bellingham Fire Department prepare to transfer a survivor to emergency medical services personnel in Bellingham, Washington, July 23, 2026. The US Coast Guard, along with the US Navy, the Canadian Coast Guard, and local partner agencies responded to a seaplane emergency landing in Shallow Bay on Washington's Sucia Island earlier that day.
Excerpt of video showing China Coast Guard vessel firing water cannon at Philippine vessel
Atlantic Klipper
Screenshot of video showing a China Coast Guard vessel firing a water cannon at a Philippine fisheries vessel, July 23, 2026.
Photograph showing the damaged stern of the container vessel Yihang Mingyuan after it suffered an onboard explosion and a subsequent fire at the Port of Yangluo in China's Hubei province, July 22, 2026. One of the ship's crew remains unaccounted for as of July 23, 2026.
A 40-foot multi-mission reconnaissance craft|
Elyros
The Philippine Navy tank landing ship BRP Sierra Madre at Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands, July 27, 2023. The ship was deliberately grounded on the shoal in 1999 and has since remained there as a forward outpost to support Manila's territorial claim in the area.
A Turkish Coast Guard Command patrol boat (representative photo only)
A China Coast Guard patrol ship discharges its water cannon against a small boat attempting to transport supplies to Philippine troops deployed on Second Thomas Shoal, December 10, 2023.
A China Coast Guard vessel (representative photo only)
Philippine Coast Guard personnel work to contain the blaze on the motor yacht Jason off the Philippines' Romblon province, July 19, 2026.
The Chinese research ship Xue Long transits through the US exclusive economic zone and over the US extended continental shelf in the Bering Sea with a declared destination of the Arctic, July 12, 2026.
A US Coast Guard response boat-medium
The US Coast Guard Marine Protector-class patrol boat USCGC Sea Otter following an inter-agency drug interdiction operation conducted 120 miles south of San Diego, March 10, 2015
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