Coast Guard

noun

U.S. Military. a military service under the Department of Transportation, which in peacetime enforces maritime laws, saves lives and property at sea, and maintains aids to navigation, and which in wartime may be placed under the Navy Department to augment the navy.
(lowercase) any similar organization for aiding navigation, preventing smuggling, etc.
(lowercase) Also called coastguardsman. a member of any such organization.

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First recorded in 1825–35

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Coast Guard officials believed the oil spill would reach the coast Monday, but by early Sunday afternoon, oil was already surrounding anchored boats.

Over the course of my 40-year Coast Guard career we’ve seen a 31 to 32% reduction in the amount of ice in the Arctic.

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The action began shortly before 1 pm, when we met a 45-foot-long Coast Guard boat below us.

If it was diesel, the fuel would disappear within half a day or so, Adam Stanton, a spokesman for Coast Guard San Diego, told Voice of San Diego.

The residences once housed Coast Guard personnel stationed on the islands.

The Indian coast guard was called and a few days later, they intercepted the Enrica Lexie and guided it to the port of Kochi.

He was seen in Key West in the summer of 2012, and the U.S. Coast Guard was unable to locate his body.

A nearby fishing boat sent a distress signal to the Italian coast guard, but not before the boat caught fire from the lighters.

The hotelier alerted authorities who sent a Coast Guard ship to meet the incoming boat.

Allen left the Coast Guard in 2010 and now works for Booz Allen Hamilton.

A half-hour later, made presentable in the coast-guard captain's liberty suit, Mayo walked through the kitchen.

The coast-guard captain's liberty garments were not impressive, nor did they fit very well.

In less than half an hour the sails were lowered, and she anchored some fifty yards from the coast-guard station.

Janko fears neither the sea, nor the wind, nor the fog, nor the coast-guard.

From 1826 to 1860 he was employed with the Coast Guard, and retired with the rank of commander.

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