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The Coast Guard cutter Stratton was deployed to the Bering Sea from January to April 2024. Coast Guard photo.

Cutter Stratton returns from 111-day Bering Sea deployment

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The ship's company boards at the commissioning of the Coast Guard cutter Calhoun at North Cahrleston, S.C. April 20, 2024. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard commissions 10th Legend class cutter

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HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the Richard M. McCool Jr. to the U.S. Navy April 11, 2024. HII Ingalls Shipbuilding photo.

HII Ingalls delivers 13th Navy amphibious transport dock

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The future USS Constellation will be a 496'x64.6' frigate, the first of 10 vessels in the class to be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine. Fincantieri image.

Keel laid at Fincantieri for first Constellation frigate

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Three men stranded on remote Pikelot Atoll in the mid-Pacific used palm leaves to spell out a distress message that could be spotted by Navy and Coast Guard aviators. Coast Guard image.

U.S. Coast Guard, Navy rescue three from remote Pacific atoll

The LCU 1700 class can carry various payloads such as two M1A1 tanks, 350 combat troops, or 400 persons, or 170 short tons of cargo. Austal USA rendering.

Austal USA starts construction on LCU 1710

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President Biden and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, right, after Biden toured the Key Bridge wreckage April 5 in Baltimore. C-Span video image.

Biden calls on Congress to commit to Baltimore port spending

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Mariners working on sea-going vessels like container ships have much longer schedules at sea. Maersk Line

Marad symposium will focus on work-life balance in maritime industry

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Everett Ship Repair, a subsidiary of Ice Cap Holding and a sister company to Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, has an approximately 100-employee workforce and plans to expand. Everett Ship Repair photo.

Everett Ship Repair expands capabilities, earns key military certification

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Metal Shark Alabama is located on 35 acres in Bayou La Batre, Ala. Birdon America photo

Marad opens 2024 round of small shipyard grants

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The Coast Guard is making headway addressing recruiting and retention challenges. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Improving Coast Guard recruiting tied to restoring trust, transparency after Academy sexual assault scandal

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One of three multimission Zumwalt-class destroyers delivered in April 2014. BIW photo.

Bath Iron Works secures Navy maintenance contract for Zumwalt-class destroyers

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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Legare, seen here in New York Harbor, returned to Portsmouth, Va., Maarch 21 after a seven week patrol off the Northeast U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard cutter Legare returns from Northeast U.S. patrol

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