Dec 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on Coast Guard retrieves aground barge near Walsey Creek in Queenstown, Md.
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard retrieved the aground barge Friday afternoon, that broke free from a Coast Guard cutter during a storm Wednesday.
The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sledge, a construction tender homeported in Baltimore, retrieved the barge and is towing it to the Coast Guard Yard to be inspected and put back into service.
A crew from the Coast Guard Cutter William Tate and a crew...
Dec 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Coast Guard to retrieve barge near Walsey Creek in Queenstown, Md.
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard is responding to a barge that broke away from a Coast Guard cutter during a storm here Wednesday.
The 100-foot barge was alongside the Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin that was anchored approximately 3 miles north of the Chester River when it broke free at approximately 10 p.m. and drifted toward Winchester Creek and Walsey Creek near Queenstown.
No one was injured during...
