Showing posts with label coasties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coasties. Show all posts

Coast Guard: Splashing into 2023

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guar

Splashing into 2023 like...

On the way to the Arctic, USCGC STRATTON WMSL 752 recently transited north through some heavy seas off the Pacific Northwest.

At times, the sea spray reached as high as Stratton’s mast, which is nearly 150 feet tall.



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Coast Guard aircrew rescues two from burning fishing boat

Friday, September 16, 2022

Photo courtesy USCG

Air Station North Bend MH-65 aircrew rescued two who were aboard a fishing vessel on fire Wednesday off Gold Beach, OR. The aircrew hoisted both safely with no medical concerns.

Video here



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Coasties: The John McCormick in Alaska

Monday, August 29, 2022

The John McCormick photo by Jan Hansen

Photo and Story by Jan Hansen

I looked for the Healey, and found the McCormick in Ketchikan.
 
Wikipedia:
USCGC John McCormick (WPC-1121) is the United States Coast Guard's 21st Sentinel-class cutter, and the first to be stationed in Alaska, where homeported at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan.

The vessel's manufacturer, Bollinger Shipyards, of Lockport, Louisiana, delivered the ship to the Coast Guard on December 13, 2016, for her acceptance trials, and then John McCormick was commissioned on April 12, 2017 in Ketchikan, Alaska.

And speaking of the Healy - check this out!




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