High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USCGC Ocracoke is an Island Class Cutter of the United States Coast Guard. She is stationed in the Caribbean, where she patrols international and territorial waters as a humanitarian, law enforcement, and Homeland Security asset. Her primary missions are Search and Rescue, Counter-Smuggling Activities, and Homeland Security. As of 2008 she has been working out of St. Petersburg, Florida.