Chicago – The Chicago Yacht Club announced today that two United States Coast Guard cutters will accompany a fleet of over 400 boats during the 100th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, presented by Lands’ End Business Outfitters. 2008 marks the 100th running of ‘the Mac,’ the world’s longest annual freshwater sailing distance race, which [...]
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Coast Guard searching for missing kayaker
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (D5 Public Affairs) – Coast Guard rescue crews from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and Station Elizabeth City search for an overdue kayaker in the vicinity of Albemarle Sound, N.C., near Leonard Point today.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received notification at 3:58 p.m. from North Carolina Wildlife, that Curtis [...]
Coast Guard searching for man missing from sailboat
BOSTON (D1 Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard and local agencies are searching for a 65-year-old man missing from a sailboat near the south base of Mount Hope Bay in Rhode Island today.
Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England received a radio call from a woman aboard the 32-foot sailboat Elizabeth around 4:50 p.m., reporting her [...]
Coast Guard reopens St. Louis Harbor to commercial traffic
ST. LOUIS (D8 Public Affairs) – The Coast Guard has opened St. Louis Harbor to commercial vessel traffic today. A safety zone remains in effect from mile markers 179 to 184 on the Upper Mississippi River, southbound tows greater than 600 feet in length are limited to daylight hours only.
Due to high water, the Upper [...]
Coast Guard Atlantic Area, Defense Force East Change of Command
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (D5 Public Affairs) – A time-honored change of command ceremony for U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area and U.S. Coast Guard Defense Force East is being held at the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command in Portsmouth, Thursday at 10 a.m.
Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., who spent the last two years in Washington, [...]
Coast Guard airlifts ailing fisherman
BOSTON (D1 Public Affairs) – A Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted a 56-year-old fisherman who was suffering from abdominal pain aboard a fishing vessel approximately 95 miles east of Chatham, Mass., today.
The Coast Guard First District Command Center in Boston received a call around 9 a.m., from the Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, Canada, reporting [...]
Cruise Ship Spirit of Glacier Bay Runs Aground
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard is responding to the 178-foot Spirit of Glacier Bay after grounding in Tarr Inlet near Glacier Bay National Park with 51 people aboard at approximately 7:45 a.m. today. At this time there is no compromise to the hull and no injuries reported.
The Coast Guard has launched two MH-60 Jayhawk [...]