Seattle – 30 first graders from Hawthorne Elementary School recently visited the Coast Guard at Pier 36 as part of the Partnership in Education Program. A program that has provided educational assistance through tutoring and lecturing and has exposed students to positive role models since 1991.
The children were also provided with a demonstration from [...]
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The Coast Guard’s Partnership in Education
Coast Guard Assisting Disabled Vessel in Taku Inlet
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is assisting the fishing vessel Alaskan Pride, which became disabled with three people on board in Taku Inlet at 1:30 p.m. today.
A Coast Guard HH-60 helicopter from Air Station Sitka remained on scene until a 47 foot motor life boat from Station Juneau arrived at 3:30 p.m. and took [...]
Coast Guard to Transfer 5 Lighthouses to Park Service
San Francisco – The U.S. Coast Guard will transfer five lighthouses considered to be within the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to National Park Service control. The transfer will include the historic Point Montara lighthouse on the Coastside, according to GGNRA spokesman Rich Weidman.
The Coast Guard will continue to operate aids to [...]
Cutter Storis to Remain on the West Coast
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard announced today the 65 year-old Coast Guard cutter Storis, decommissioned yesterday in Kodiak, Alaska, will be transferred to California to be temporarily stored and maintained until a decision is made on its final disposition.
“I am hopeful cutter Storis will become a museum, where a new generation of people from [...]
Coast Guard and Guam EPA Discuss Cocos Lagoon Contamination
Apra Harbor, GUAM – Representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, Guam Environmental Protection Agency, Guam Department of Public Health, Guam Department of Agriculture’s Division of Fish and Wildlife and a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist will lead a town hall meeting at the Senior Citizen Center in Merizo Feb. 13 at 7 p.m.
The town hall [...]
Coast Guardsman Retires After 41 Years of Service
Portsmouth, Va., Feb. 9 – After 41 years of dedicated service to the U.S. Coast Guard, CWO4 Donald F. Allen, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, retired from active duty here today.
Allen most recently served at Coast Guard Atlantic Area here from 2006-2007. His other assignments include three stations, three Reserve units, [...]
Coast Guard Shifts, Enforces Regulated Navigation Area for USS Gridley
MIAMI – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port here will enact a regulated navigation area around the Navy vessel, USS Gridley (DDG 101), after it departs its current mooring and is moored on the south side of Dodge Island in Miami, starting Saturday afternoon until Monday when the Gridley departs.
The Coast Guard and [...]