From the Bridge Wing 10-30-2013
Today in Coast Guard History
1956 – Coast Guard Cutter Chincoteague, manning Ocean Station Delta in the North Atlantic, received a distress message that the German freighter Helgs Bolten was taking on water and wished to abandon ship as soon as possible. After reaching the scene some hours later, the cutter found that the high winds and 25-foot seas made it impossible to launch lifeboats. Two...
Coast Guard transfers 350 pounds of seized cocaine to the Dominican Republic Navy
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) law enforcement crews, as members of the Caribbean Border Interagency Group, in conjunction with Dominican Republic’s Navy and Air Force authorities recovered a 350-pound- cocaine shipment, 168 bricks, from the water following a maritime pursuit of a drug-smuggling vessel Saturday in the Mona Passage.
The crew...
Coast Guard repatriates 21 Dominican and 1 Haitian migrants to the Dominican Republic
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Coast Guard Cutter Chincoteague repatriated 21 Dominicans and one Haitian to the Dominican Republic Saturday, following an at-sea migrant interdiction Thursday by Caribbean Border Interagency Group law enforcement authorities, approximately 13 nautical miles off the coast of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
The crew of the Chincoteague transferred custody of the 22 migrants to...
Coast Guard Cutters Chincoteague and Farallon hold joint change of command ceremony
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A joint change of command ceremony was held for the Coast Guard Cutter Chincoteague and Coast Guard Cutter Farallon at Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Friday.
Lt. Timothy Dolan relieved Lt. James Corbert of command of the cutter Chincoteague and Lt. Jacob McMillan relieved Lt. Cmdr. James O’Mara of the cutter Farallon during a time-honored military tradition to formally transfer...
CBIG authorities detain 2 Dominicans for smuggling Cubans to Mona Island, Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG) law enforcement authorities interdicted two Dominican men suspected of migrant smuggling Monday and took custody of nine Cuban migrants after they made landfall on Mona Island, Puerto Rico.
