RedOrbit Report:
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Heading south on N.C. 34, the four-lane road becomes two lanes and leads to southern Pasquotank County’s farmland.
But the landscape there is expected to change with the development of the $10.4 million, 65.5-acre Elizabeth City Aviation Research and Development Commerce Park.
It could result in 500 new jobs and more than [...]
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CGNewsTip: Project Would Create Core of Aviation Research in NC
Coast Guard Investigates Tanker Collision in Baton Rouge
NEW ORLEANS – Personnel from Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge, La., are investigating the cause of a collision between the I-10 bridge and an oil tanker in Baton Rouge today.
The Coast Guard received the report at about 8:45 a.m. that the 798-foot tanker Kition had collided with the bridge at mile marker 229 [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Four After Crew Abandons Ship
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard rescued four people at 1:57 a.m. today, who had abandoned ship from the fishing vessel Illusion near Dutch Harbor at 11:22 p.m., yesterday.
The crew was picked up from a life raft in Makushin Bay by a Coast Guard helicopter that had been in Dutch Harbor with the Coast Guard [...]
Coast Guard Investigating Cruise Ship Collision on Lower Mississippi
NEW ORLEANS – Personnel from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans are investigating a collision here today between a barge and the cruise ship Fantasy which caused a 30-foot gash in the cruise ship.
The cruise ship and barge collided down river from New Orleans while in the last miles of a homeward journey. The collision [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – February 10th
1840- A House resolution was introduced to inquire into transferring the Revenue Marine to the Navy.
1940-CGCs Bibb and Duane became the first vessels to make radio transmissions as “weather stations.”
1992- Retired Coast Guard Chief Journalist Alex Haley, internationally noted author and the first person to ever hold that rate in the Coast Guard, died [...]