ALAMEDA, Calif. – The Alameda-based Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau will depart Monday at approximately 2:30 p.m. to participate in the international training exercises, Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) and South East Asia Cooperation Against Terrorism (SEA-CAT) 2008.
The departure of the 378-foot high endurance cutter represents the 14th time the U.S. Coast Guard has participated [...]
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Coast Guard Cutter to Deploy to Asia
Coast Guard tows University of Rhode Island research vessel
BOSTON – The Coast Guard safely towed a University of Rhode Island research vessel with two people aboard into port after it lost power east of Point Judith, R.I., about 10:30 a.m., today.
Personnel aboard the 50-foot vessel Cap’n Bert, homeported in Wickford, R.I., used onboard quahog dredges to slow the boat’s drift rate as a [...]
Coast Guard urges mariners to use new distress beacons
BOSTON – As temperatures rise and the number of boaters in New England waters increases, the Coast Guard is reminding mariners to make the switch to new life-saving digital Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons before the clock runs out on older non-digital equipment.
Beginning Feb. 1, 2009, the Coast Guard and other search and rescue personnel [...]