Coast Guard (Non-Naval Security, Security)

Philippine Coast Guard personnel on a small boat deploy a spill boom around the partially submerged cargo vessel LCT 8 off Carrascal in Surigao del Sur province, November 10, 2026. All 17 of the vessel's crew were unharmed but the incident resulted in nearly 200 metres of shoreline being contaminated by spilled oil.
Accidents

Cargo vessel spills oil after sinking off Surigao del Sur, Philippines

Will Xavier
CCGS Donjek Glacier
Coast Guard

Sea trials completed for Canadian Coast Guard's newest Arctic patrol ship

Will Xavier
Map showing the Bashi Channel in between Taiwan and the Philippines
Security

G7 calls out China's assertive actions in waters east of Taiwan

Reuters
A Metal Shark 38-foot patrol boat
Security

Louisiana builder to supply additional patrol boats for Bangladesh

Will Xavier
Map showing the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman
Incidents

22 crew rescued from burning commercial ship in Gulf of Oman

Jens Karsten
A 1000 Island Airboats ice rescue boat
Search and Rescue

US Coast Guard awards $6.13m contract for 10 Great Lakes ice rescue boats

Will Xavier
An icebreaker sails through the Hudson River.
Icebreaking

US Coast Guard seeks commercial icebreakers for northeast waterways

Will Xavier
A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel (representative photo only)
Accidents

One dead after tug suffers onboard fire off Okinawa

Jens Karsten
Map showing the Bashi Channel in between Taiwan and the Philippines
Coast Guard

Taiwan says China asserting fake jurisdiction over eastern waters

Reuters
A China Coast Guard vessel (representative photo only)
Coast Guard

China's coast guard tightens grip in waters east of Taiwan

Reuters
The Ro-Pax ferry Virgen de Peñafrancia II lies on her side after listing heavily to starboard just off Real Port in the Philippines' Quezon province, October 30, 2026. All 58 passengers and crew were safely rescued.
Accidents

58 rescued from listing ferry off Quezon Province, Philippines

Will Xavier
People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships led by the aircraft carrier Liaoning underway during the celebration of the PLAN's 75th founding anniversary, April 23, 2024
Naval Ships

Taiwan spots over 50 Chinese warships and vessels off regional waters, warns of "obvious" threat

Reuters
The Turkish Coast Guard Command 88-metre patrol vessel TCGS Güven (representative photo only)
Coast Guard

Turkey to begin production of new coast guard ship with expanded rescue capabilities

Will Xavier
UHL Freedom
Incidents

Three crew injured as heavy lift vessel loses propulsion in the North Sea

Alan Bosworth
Pratas/Dongsha Island
Non-Naval Security

China claims coast guard is "keeping order" near disputed Taiwan atoll

Reuters
Concept rendering of standarised vessels for Norwegian Navy
Naval Ships

Norway to split standardised vessel buy into separate naval and coast guard contracts

Alan Bosworth
The USS Charleston, a US Navy Independence-class littoral combat ship
Naval

Tensions flare as China tracks US warship and clashes with Taiwan in disputed waters

Reuters
Two China Coast Guard vessels underway
Coast Guard

US panel chair warns Chinese patrols east of Taiwan are "warfare"

Reuters
The US Coast Guard medium endurance cutter USCGC Active during an interdiction operation in the Pacific Ocean in late 2020
Accidents

US Coast Guard suspends search for 11 missing following boat sinking off Mexico

Will Xavier
The charred wreck of the Philippine ferry June Aster. The vessel caught fire while underway off Palawan province on the late evening of September 9, 2026. Seventy-seven people who were on the ferry perished in the tragedy while 43 were rescued and another eight remain unaccounted for as of September 28, 2026.
Accidents

Philippine officials link fatal ferry fire to unsecured chemical cargo

Will Xavier
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