The Coast Guard postponed a welcoming ceremony for its newest Guam-based cutter so the vessel could join the search for a missing skiff near the Federated States of Micronesia.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton and local forces seized approximately 2,380 pounds of marijuana.

The six 154-foot fast-response cutters — formerly assigned to the Bahrain-based Patrol Forces Southwest Asia — began operating in the Western Pacific last month.

Healy suffered a major “engineering casualty” on July 13. The incident is under investigation, and there was no estimate on how long it would be out of service.

Six cutters formerly homeported in Bahrain will now patrol Western Pacific waters as an expeditionary squadron.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro monitored the Chinese research ship Xue Long as it transited north through the U.S. “exclusive economic zone.”

The U.S. Coast Guard and partner agencies located a missing fisherman who went fishing off St. Thomas on Thursday and did not return as expected, the service announced in a news release Friday.

The U.S. Coast Guard has given the green light to shipyards in Louisiana and Finland to start work on the first six new icebreaking Arctic Security Cutters.

Constitution is the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat, and Eagle celebrated 80 years with the Coast Guard after the U.S. claimed it as a war prize from the Nazis.

The nation’s oldest aircraft carrier joins other U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships, along with participants from more than 50 allied and partner nations.