Imagery Available: Astoria-based Coast Guard cutter celebrates 50 years of maritime service

Active and retired Coast Guard members who served aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast, pose for a picture during a 50th anniversary celebration ceremony held on the cutter at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Ore., Dec. 7, 2018.

Crews aboard the cutter are renowned for their record setting drug seizures; a Steadfast crew the first in the Coast Guard to intercept more than one million pounds of drugs with 1,025,375 pounds seized on Oct. 22, 1980.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Trevor Lilburn.

Members of a Coast Guard color guard post colors during a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast in a ceremony held at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Ore., Dec. 7, 2018.

The crew returned home Nov. 21, following a 76-day dry-dock availability in Bellingham, Wash.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Trevor Lilburn.

A collage of pictures depicting the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast and her crew over the last 50 years surround a cake and officer sword on display during a celebration at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Ore., Dec. 7, 2018.

Throughout the Caribbean during the 1970s crew members aboard the Steadfast seized more than 110 tons of narcotics bound for U.S. shores and Colombian drug traffickers reportedly nicknamed them “El Tiburon Blanco," which translates to "The White Shark."

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Trevor Lilburn.