PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Ingalls Shipbuilding held a christening ceremony Saturday for National Security Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) -- the 10th NSC the Pascagoula shipyard has built for the U.S.

Legend-class cutters are 418 feet long, 54 feet in the beam and have a speed of more than 28 knots. Their range is 12,000 nautical miles. They are replacing Hamilton-class cutters now in service.

The Legend class is the largest and most technologically advanced class of cutter in the Coast Guard, with robust capabilities for maritime homeland security, law enforcement, marine safety ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded an $88.2 million contract for long-lead materials for the ninth Coast Guard Legend-class National Security Cutter, the company announced on Tuesday.

Ingalls is the nation’s sole builder of Legend -class cutters for the Coast Guard. The shipyard has delivered nine NSCs, with two more under construction. In November 2020, NSC Stone was delivered to ...

The latest U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter commissioned on Saturday in a ceremony in Seattle, Wash. USCGC Munro (WMSL-755) is now the sixth Legend-class cutter in service and the fourth ...

The tenth Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC) for the US Coast Guard (USCG) was launched on 3 April by the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) at Pascagoula, ...

In comparison, the long-endurance Legend class NSCs can operate at 60 or 90-day cycles, while the smaller Sentinel class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) have an endurance time of just five days.

It is the largest single haul of cocaine and marijuana in Coast Guard history, and it is valued at $473 million.

The seventh ship, WMSL 756, is scheduled for delivery in 2018. Ingalls explain that Legend-class NSCs are the flagships of the Coast Guard's cutter fleet.

The cutter honors the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient, Douglas Munro, of South Cle Elum, who was fatally wounded in Guadalcanal in 1942.

The U.S. Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the ...