ALAMEDA, Calf. – The Coast Guard, working with the Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR), and East Bay Regional Parks, will oversee the cleanup of tarballs discovered on the Robert Crown Memorial State Beach, today.
At 1:36 p.m., the Coast Guard received a report of tarballs on the beach, and [...]
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Coast Guard to Oversee Tarball Cleanup on Robert Crown Memorial State Park
Video – Coast Guard Cutter Eagle departs Astoria, Ore
SEATTLE (CG Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle departed Astoria, Ore., yesterday after a brief port of call during its 2008 Summer Cruise. The Eagle arrived after spending 17 days at sea while transiting from San Diego, Calif., and being underway for over two months since departing homeport in New London, Conn.
The Eagle’s [...]
Cutter Confidence Gets A New Commanding Officer
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. (CG Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence held a change of command ceremony at Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral Tuesday at 10 a.m.
Cmdr. William J. Lawrence relieved Cmdr. Cameron T. Naron as the 23rd commanding officer of the cutter Confidence, a 210 foot Reliance-Class Cutter, home ported in Port Canaveral. [...]
Coast Guard rescues father and son from life raft
BOSTON (CG Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard rescued a father and son crew of a 40-foot Northeast Harbor lobster vessel after it caught fire and sank around 9 a.m., today about 20 miles south of Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Coast Guard Station Southwest Harbor received a phone call from a family friend around 11:22 a.m., reporting [...]
Coast Guard announces retirement of Group Port Angeles Executive Officer
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (CG Public Affairs) – Coast Guard Group /Air Station Port Angeles will hold a retirement ceremony for Commander Keith Russell, the Executive Officer, on June 20, 2008 at 10 a.m., inside the Aviation Engineering Hangar.
A New England native, Commander Russell was born in Rutland, Vt., to Norman and Cheryl Russell in 1966. [...]
U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards search Northern Atlantic for overdue vessel
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (CG Public Affairs) – The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are searching the Northern Atlantic for the overdue 35-foot sailing vessel Dystocia, which was transiting from Bermuda to St. John’s, Newfoundland, today.
Coast Guard watchstanders at Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) Portsmouth received notification at 10:17 a.m. June 13 from RCC Iceland the Dystocia, with [...]
IT’S NO JOKE
SAN DIEGO (CG Public Affairs) – For more than 200 years the U.S. Coast Guard has responded to distress calls at sea as quickly as possible as if it were an actual call for help. But every once in a while, some of those calls are found to be false alarms, or hoax [...]