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Posts on ‘December 16th, 2006’

Coast Guard Headquarters Sold

Friday morning Monday Properties announced that it, in a joint venture with Apollo Real Estate Advisors’ Value Enhancement Fund VI, they had acquired the Transpoint Building in Washington, D.C., which has been the headquarters of the United States Coast Guard since it was built in 1973. The 8-story, 600,000-square-foot structure is on the southwest waterfront [...]

“ICEBREAKER MACKINAW” DVD launched

Award-winning video producer releases “Life Aboard ICEBREAKER MACKINAW”.
Don Hermanson, recipient of numerous awards for documenting Great Lakes regional history and folklore, released his new DVD “Life Aboard ICEBREAKER MACKINAW” on October 25, 2006.
Filmed during “Operation Taconite” in March 2006 and the original Mackinaw’s (WAGB 83) last breakout on Lake Superior, the video captures its [...]

Cutter Jarvis Returns from Alaska Patrol

HONOLULU – After more than three months patrolling the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis arrived back home in Honolulu yesterday. The Jarvis and crew returned from a successful Alaskan fisheries patrol that focused on maritime law enforcement and search and rescue. Crewmembers expressed a definite sense of [...]