BOSTON – Three Coast Guard boat crews and two air crews are responding to a tanker vessel that is taking on water about 35 miles off the coast of Rockland, Maine tonight.
The three-person crew aboard the 72-foot island tanker vessel William McLoon, radioed Coast Guard Sector Northern New England around 8:40 p.m., reporting flooding in [...]
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Coast Guard crews assist flooding tanker vessel
Coast Guard rescues jet-skier
HOUSTON – The Coast Guard rescued a man stranded in Jones Lake near Texas City, Texas, this evening.
A watchstander from Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston received a cell-phone call from a boater at 5 p.m. Tuesday. The boater reported seeing a jet-skier stranded in the shallow waters of Jones Lake, Texas.
Coast Guard Air Station Houston launched [...]
Coast Guard rescues two men from disabled sail boat
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The crew of a Coast Guard HH-65C rescue helicopter from Air Station Corpus Christi hoisted two men at 10:00 a.m. off a disabled sail boat 108 miles offshore east of Corpus Christi.
Both 50 year old and 35 year old men are from Dallas, Texas and suffered no injuries. The 30 [...]
Bertholf Crew Conducts Small Arms Training
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crew conducted small arms training at a firing range here in preparation for the acceptance and delivery of the new National Security Cutter.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas Hallmark of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf fires an M-16 rifle during small arms training.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty [...]
Kodiak Residents Receive Meritorious Public Service Awards
KODIAK, Alaska – Two Kodiak residents were presented the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award on March 3 for their lifesaving actions in two recent rescues.
Steven Stark, master of the fishing vessel Heritage, and his crew are being presented the award for their involvement in the rescue of Alan Ryden.
Ryden’s ship sank in the Shelikof [...]