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Posts on ‘December 13th, 2006’

Former Coast Guard Station Ludington to Become Maritime Museum

Ludington, MI – The Ludington Daily News reports that the former Coast Guard Station Ludington is on track to become a maritime museum. Ludington city and Mason County Historical Society representatives are negotiating an agreement to turn the station into a museum.
You can read about it at the Ludington Daily News website.
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Cutter Mohawk Becomes a Memorial Museum

KEY WEST, Florida Keys – The U.S.S. Mohawk Coast Guard Cutter Memorial Museum, aboard the vessel believed to be the only remaining Coast Guard submarine chaser in existence, is to debut at Key West’s Truman Waterfront with a ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 16.
Built in 1934 for the US Coast Guard, the 165-foot-long Mohawk [...]

The Coast Guard Goes to War

Seattle, WA – The Coast Guard Cutter Midgett, homeported in Seattle has been deployed since September in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

INDIAN OCEAN – Receiving supplies from a Navy helicopter, Dec 9, 2006, while underway in the Gulf of Aden.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Mariana O’Leary.

INDIAN OCEAN – Petty Officer 3rd [...]

Coast Guard Not Clowning Around

St. Petersburg, FL – The Coast Guard said Tuesday night that it is investigating whether two Coast Guardsman stole a clown statue in Sarasota.
A spokesman for Sector St. Petersburg said that the matter was being investigate by Coast Guard Intelligence.
The two are assigned to a buoy tender that was in Sarasota at the time the [...]