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Marine safety is one of the eleven missions of the United States Coast Guard . Coast Guard personnel inspect commercial vessels, respond to pollution, investigate marine casualties and merchant mariners, manage waterways, and license merchant mariners. Coast Guard officials also draft recommendations for the transit of hazardous cargo by ship ...
Title 46 is the portion of the Code of Federal Regulations that governs shipping within the United States for the United States Coast Guard, the United States Maritime Administration, and the United States Maritime Commission. It is available in digital or printed form. Title 46 and Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations are usually ...
USCGC Harriet Lane, a Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC) United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are 65 feet (19.8 m) or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. [ 1][ 2] They carry the ship prefix USCGC .
Any Coast Guard crew with officers or petty officers assigned has law-enforcement authority (14 USC Sec. 89) and can conduct armed boardings. The Coast Guard operates 243 Cutters, [2] defined as any vessel more than 65 feet (20 m) long, that has a permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew. [3]
The National Cargo Bureau(NCB) a not-for-profitmarine surveyingorganizationcharged with assisting the U.S. Coast Guardwith carrying out the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.[1] The NCB was formed by a group of marine underwriters and the Coast Guard for the purpose of reducing losses of grain ships.
The U.S. Coast Guard is a humanitarian and security service. It protects the United States ' borders and economic and security interests abroad; and defends its sovereignty by safeguarding sea lines of communication and commerce across U.S. territorial waters and its Exclusive Economic Zone.
A combined U.S. Navy/U.S. Coast Guard VBSS team from USS Chosin (CG-65) and embarked MSST personnel inspects a suspected pirate dhow in the Gulf of Aden, November 2009. Visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) [1] is the term used by United States military and law enforcement agencies for maritime boarding actions and tactics.
Functions temporarily transferred to United States Coast Guard 1942–1946. The Steamboat Inspection Service was a United States agency created in 1871 to safeguard lives and property at sea. It merged with the Bureau of Navigation in 1932 to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, which in 1936 was reorganized into the Bureau ...