TAMPA, Fla. – A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater rescue crew medically evacuated an 18-year-old male from a cruise ship 250-miles southwest of Clearwater Beach, Fla., at about 1 p.m. today.
Tyler King, residence unknown, fell 20 feet from the cruise ship’s mast to the deck. King landed on his head causing head trauma, a [...]
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Coast Guard Medevacs 18 Year Old From Cruise Ship
Coast Guard’s 64 Year Old Cutter to be Decommissioned
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard ’s “Queen of the Fleet,” Cutter Storis will be decommissioned during a ceremony on the Coast Guard base February 8, 2006 in Kodiak. The ship is known as the Queen of the Fleet for being the oldest active duty cutter in service.
During World War II, CGC Storis patrolled the [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – January 3rd
1882- The watch at Station No. 13, Second District, Massachusetts, reported at about 4 p.m., the collision of two schooners, two and a half miles east southeast of the station. Launching the surfboat, the crew proceeded to the vessels. The smaller vessel, the British schooner Dart, was boarded first. She was out from Saint John, [...]