Units housed at Station New London conduct search and rescue, recreational boating safety, maritime law enforcement, military readiness, pollution response, and port security activities. SEE MORE
Station Point Judith supports search and rescue operations, environmental protection, maritime safety and maintenance of all the lighthouses, buoys or other similar equipment. Station Point Judith is responsible for more than 68 miles of coast as well as Block island. SEE MORE
Volunteer lifesavers on Nantucket in the 18th century later became members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and eventually the U.S. Coast Guard, now operating at Station Brant Point. SEE MORE
The primary purpose of the station includes overlooking the operations of the Coast Guard in Newport, RI. The station is responsible for search-and-rescue operations. Station Castle Hill also assists the Coast Guard in environmental protection programs. It has a ship docking facility and has some regular ships on the station,… SEE MORE
United States Coast Guard Station Menemsha is located in Menemsha, Massachusetts, within the town of Chilmark. Primarily a Search and Rescue unit, other activities include Law Enforcement in commercial fisheries and recreational boating safety. The unit is classified as a Heavy Weather Station, capable of operating in up to 20… SEE MORE
The Coast Guard has been at Woods Hole since 1857, when the lighthouse service bought this property as a maintenance facility to support their buoys, lights and lightships. This site is home to the Group Headquarters and also to a number of the units that report to Group Woods Hole.… SEE MORE
The bars and shoals surrounding Chatham Massachusetts make it a treacherous area to navigate. Consequently, during the late 19th and early 20th century Chatham had three active lighthouses and four lifesaving stations. Today Coast Guard Station Chatham is equipped with three 42-foot rescue boats which were specially made for conditions… SEE MORE
United States Coast Guard Station Cape Cod Canal, located in Sandwich, Massachusetts. It operates patrol boats along the coast of Cape Cod, the Cape Cod Canal, and the treacherous waters of Buzzards Bay. SEE MORE
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod (ASCC), operates with MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters and HC-144A Ocean Sentry fixed-wing aircraft, and is the only Coast Guard Aviation facility in the northeast. As such, ASCC is responsible for the waters from New Jersey to the Canadian border. SEE MORE