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Coast Guard Barque Eagle Announces 2009 Schedule

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NEW LONDON, Conn. - Destinations for the Coast Guard Barque Eagle’s 2009 summer cruise have been determined.
The crew of the Eagle will depart for Rota, Spain, from New London April 20, 2009, and begin a training cruise that will include Europe, Bermuda, and the Atlantic Coast of North America, including Canada.
The Eagle will make the [...]

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Coast Guard Medevac’s Crewmember from Fishing Vessel

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SITKA, Alaska - Coast Guard Air Station Sitka launched a MH-60J “Jayhawk” Helicopter to conduct a medical evacuation of a 28 year old male West of Sitka at 1 p.m. yesterday.
The rescue helicopter flew 125 nautical miles west of Sitka to the fishing vessel Chantel Marie’s location, approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Lituya Bay [...]

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Coast Guard responds to 3 different distress calls in South Texas

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Corpus Christi, Texas - The Coast Guard responded to 3 different distress calls on Saturday.
The Coast Guard medevaced a 50 year old woman from a vessel 25 miles offshore of Port Aransas, Texas.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Station Port Aransas received a radio call from the Captain of motor vessel LA PESCA at approximately 10:20 [...]

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Coast Guard ends search in plane crash

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AVON-BY-THE-SEA, N.J. - The Coast Guard has ended its search for survivors today from a plane crash near Shark River Island here and is assisting local and federal agencies.
The Coast Guard began their search at 6:51 p.m. when a four-seat plane crashed in about three feet of water in Shark River.
A rescue boat crew from [...]

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Coast Guard, Good Samaritan rescue six from Gulf of Mexico

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HOUSTON - The Coast Guard, along with the assistance of a Good Samaritan, rescued six people from the Gulf of Mexico this evening, after their 20-foot sailboat capsized 10-miles south of Matagorda Island, Texas.
A watchstander at Sector Houston-Galveston received a call at 5:15 p.m. from tech airman Roy Rogers of Rotor Craft Leasing that one [...]

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Update on Two People Missing Off Long Island

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NEW YORK- The multi-agency search for two missing Queens, N.Y., men was suspended pending further information at 12:45 p.m. today.
Mac Jerome Franklin and Kevin Mitchell left for a fishing trip in the Town of Hempstead, on East Bay, Sun. June 29, at approximately 10 p.m.
Concerned family contacted Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound to notify [...]

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