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  United States Coast Guard
Cutters and small boats are used on the water and fixed and rotary wing (helicopters) aircraft are used in the air.
Revenue Marine cutters were involved in the Quasi-War with France[?] from 1798 to 1799, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War.
In 1794, the Revenue Cutter Service was given the mission of preventing trading in slaves from Africa to the United States.
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 Small Boats and Cutters
The 210 foot Alert is a medium endurance cutter assigned to patrol the Atlantic Ocean.
The 270 foot medium endurance cutter Harriet Lane is one of the "famous" class cutters that currently operates from Coast Guard Support Center Portsmouth, VA. She is seen her with an HH-60 J "Jayhawk" helo and is used in offshore SAR and law enforcement.
The high endurance cutter Hamiliton was built in 1965 and was the first of the "Hamiliton" or "Hero" class, named after Coast Guard heroes and earlier cutters of the same name.
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 CG Aviation History
A mix of high and medium endurance cutters, with helicopters embarked are used to monitor foreign vessels for compliance with procedures as agreed upon.
It was not uncommon for a cutter to have five or six boats in tow and a number of survivors on board from swamped boats.
Capt William J Brogden, on the cutter Dallas, was the On-Scene-Commander surface vessels.
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 Reliance Class 210-Foot Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)
The 210-foot cutters were added to the Coast Guard as part of an effort to upgrade the aging fleet of World War II-era cutters.
An SSMEB consists of a review of the repair history of a class of cutters, an assessment of the future supportability of the main propulsion, auxiliary, and prime mission equipment on that class of cutter, and a thorough physical examination of the hull, engines, and auxiliary equipment.
SSMEBs conducted on two 210-foot cutters in 1997 showed that their service life was longer than that shown in the DMAR (at least 2 additional years for one cutter evaluated and at least 5 years for the other).
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/wmec-210.htm   (1060 words)

  
 INCSR, MARCH 1996: OTHER USG ASSISTANCE PROVIDED: United States Coast Guard
Once a year, a Coast Guard medium endurance cutter, equipped with a helicopter and normally accompanied by a Coast Guard patrol boat, conducts LE training with several nations in the Eastern Caribbean as Operation TRADEWINDS.
Through these operations, communication between the USCG and the Mexican Navy has significantly improved to such a level that arrangements are being pursued for a Mexican naval officer to be assigned as a liaison officer to USCG command centers in Los Angeles, CA and New Orleans, LA.
USCG personnel are permanently stationed in several American Embassies located in source and transit countries.
www.hri.org /docs/USSD-INCSR/95/OtherUSG/USCG.html   (987 words)

  
 USCG Cutters Screen Saver V.1
USCG Cutter Boutwell Flame shoots from the muzzle of a 25mm cannon.
USCG Cutter William Tate (WLM 560), a 175 foot buoy tender.
USCG Cutter Mellon (WHEC 717) underway in the Bering Sea Alaska.
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 Uscg Medium Endurance Cutter In Halifax | Endurance 2c Haile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Astoria Regatta
USCG Cutter Alert (WMEC-630) is the official Coast Guard vessel for the 112th Astoria Regatta.
The United States Coast Guard Cutter ALERT is the newest of the 210' medium endurance cutters constructed.
ALERT's primary missions are reflected by her motto, "Rescue, Enforce, Defend." ALERT has a designed endurance of approximately 30 days and a cruising range of 5,000 miles at a speed of 15 knots.
www.astoriaregatta.org /uscg_vessel.html   (338 words)

  
 USCG Auxiliary - International Affairs
The cutter encountered 40 foot seas, 75 knot winds and minus 25 degree wind chill factors on the North Pacific and Bering Sea, but he enthusiastically maintained his post on the bridge, monitoring the Russian fishing fleet's radio traffic.
Barantseff was again at his post on the radio of the cutter's bridge and was the voice and ears for both vessels' captains.
Barantseff received Boarding Officers' training at the USCG North Pacific Fisheries Training Center (NPFAC) in Kodiak, Alaska and was the lead Russian interpreter/translator of the instructional material which he co-presented with the NPFAC commanding officer to a delegation of Russian Border Service officers.
www.cgauxinternational.org /Interpreter/interpreter2.html   (837 words)

  
 USCG Cutter Bibb
The cutter reported to the escort commander on the 20th and was assigned a station.
All these planes were suicide planes which chose medium sized and large ships at anchor as their targets, and used various tactics, some attacking at night, some at dusk and others during daylight.
The nearby cutter was able to repel the attack with five-inch gunfire while coming close inshore in relatively shallow water to retrieve her Medical Civil Action Program team.
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 U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 44, District 7, Daytona Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 198 foot cutter Bear was built in 1874 and served with the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service until the U.S.R.C.S. became, what is know today as, the U.S. Coast Guard.
Designed much like a large barge, and with a flat bottom and very shallow draft, the 360 foot LST had large bow doors that would open to allow the on and off loading of tanks, trucks and other equipment on a beach.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alert is a 210 foot medium endurance cutter assigned to patrol the Atlantic Ocean.
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 210-Foot Medium Endurance Cutter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Thus, the large, sea-going cruising cutters of the first class became gunboats, or "PG." To differentiate them from their Navy counterparts, all Coast Guard cutters were given the prefix "W" at that same time.
Regardless of their changing designations, the medium endurance cutters have always been vessels capable of handling a multitude of missions in any weather.
As one historian has noted, these medium endurance cutters are the "workhorses" of the fleet.
www.piersystem.com /go/doc/833/60567   (254 words)

  
 7th District American Legion of Wisconsin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
USCG Long Range Interceptor (LRI): 11-metre high-speed launch that can be launched from the rear ramps of the larger Deepwater cutters.
Revenue Marine cutters were involved in the Quasi-War withFrance from 1798 to 1799, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War.
The USCGC Taney, a notable World War II era High Endurance Cutter, is the only warship still afloat today that was present for the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, although she was actually stationed in nearby Honolulu.
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 United States Coast Guard Cutter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Cutter is a United States Coast Guard vessel 65 feet in length or greater, having adequate accommodations for crew to live on board.
The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters.
Since that time, no matter what the vessel type, the service has referred to its largest vessels as cutters (today a cutter is any Coast Guard vessel over 65-feet in length).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard_Cutter   (300 words)

  
 USS Vigilant IV
The fourth Vigilant-a 125-foot, steel-hulled, twinscrew, diesel-powered Coast Guard cutter-was completed in 1927 at Camden, N.J., by the American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. and was placed in service at Camden on 3 March 1927, Boatswain's Mate J. Morin, USCG, in charge.
At 1350 on 19 February 1942, the cutter received a radio message reporting the torpedoing (later found out to have been committed by U-128) of the tanker SS Pan Massachusetts.
It is known, however, that the vessel continued in service with the Coast Guard after World War II and was later stationed at Corpus Christi, Tex. The ship was reclassified a medium endurance cutter in the 1960's.
www.multied.com /navy/cutter/vigilantIV.html   (332 words)

  
 Stories in the News (Sitnews) - Ketchikan, Alaska - News: Acushnet celebrates 60th year of service
It is the second Coast Guard cutter to bear the name Acushnet and is the second oldest medium endurance cutter still in operation, the oldest being the Storis (61 years of service) in Kodiak, Alaska.
Previous plans would have brought all of the cutters out of service by the mid-1990's but Coast Guard policy reviews continue to extend the service-life of Acushnet, as suitable replacements have not been constructed to meet the demanding operating environment of Alaska and the Bering Sea.
In 1978, Acushnet was reclassified as a medium endurance cutter primarily to enforce maritime laws in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
www.sitnews.us /0104news/012804/012804_acushnet_60.html   (502 words)

  
 USCG honors author Alex Haley in commissioning of latest cutter Sea Power - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
USCG honors author Alex Haley in commissioning of latest cutter
The new cutter is believed to be the first U.S. military ship named for a journalist.
Haley, famed for his best-selling book Roots, served in the Coast Guard for 20 years, beginning in 1939 as a steward and retiring in 1959 as a chief journalist.
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 USCG CUTTER MOHAWK (WPG-78) SAVED FOR PRESERVATION IN MIAMI Sea Classics - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The medium endurance cutter Mohawk (WPG-78) was a 165-ft US Coast Guard cutter built before the Second World War.
The cutter was one of six Tahoma-class cutters and displaced 1050-tons full load and of course were 165-ft in length.
It was within months of being reduced to scrap when the Miami-Dade Historical Maritime Museum decided that the old cutter should be the centerpiece of its tribute to the men and ships that " fought in the Battle of the Atlantic.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4442/is_200410/ai_n16065418   (335 words)

  
 CG Aviation History - Coming of Age
He fought for money, got it, and Capt Loren “Zeke” Brunner USCG drove the effort and the system would become known as Loran C. The Coast Guard was up and operational in a year and a half during which time Sperry designed and built the equipment.
Aircraft are routinely deployed aboard Coast Guard cutters along the East Coast and throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
The Air Station Helicopters routinely deploys upon Coast Guard cutters in the Gulf region and during a six month period in 1997 a helicopter and crew were deployed on USCG LEGARE (WMEC 912) for the first operational deployment of a 270 foot Coast Guard Cutter to the Department of Defense sponsored Baltic Sea operations.
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 Public Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Harriet Lane is a 270-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Portsmouth, Va., and is commanded by Cmdr. Eric C. Jones.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – On May 9, 2003, at 10 a.m., USCG Cutter Bear will be hosting her 20th anniversary celebration at ISC Portsmouth, Va. Bear was commissioned on February 4, 1983, as the first of thirteen 270-foot medium endurance cutters and has served as a premier drug interdiction and search and rescue asset ever since.
Cutter Bear is involved in a wide spectrum of missions, illustrating the versatile, multi-mission character of the Coast Guard and the cutter fleet, and was featured in the May issue of Government Executive Magazine (http://www.govexec.com/).
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 CGinformation.org » D17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Coast Guard Cutter Storis is assisting in the humanitarian aid of isolated villages located in the Aleutian Islands.
The 230-foot cutter was homeported in Boston, Massachusetts, and assigned to participate in the Greenland Patrols, a mission targeted at preventing the establishment of German weather stations in Greenland.
The cutter’s primary function changed to enforcing laws and treaties of the domestic and foreign fisheries in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, which remains its primary mission to this day.
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 SRCSGT | 70 | BACKLIT KEYBOARD | 01-May-03 - FBO#0518
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has a requirement for a minimum of one (1) and a maximum of 260 Backlit Keyboards over a 3-year period (a base period and 2 one-year options).
The base period is from contract award through 9/30/2003 with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 125.
The USCG is looking to replace the Sun USB Type 6 Keyboards on the bridge of each USCG High Endurance Cutter (WHEC)-378, USCG Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)-210, WMEC-270, and USCG Patrol Boat (WPB)-110 class of vessels with a red LED backlit keyboard.
www.fbodaily.com /archive/2003/05-May/01-May-2003/FBO-00313943.htm   (1262 words)

  
 Ernest J. Blanchard IV, Captain, United States Coast Guard
He served as commanding officer and plank owner of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare, a 270-foot medium endurance cutter; commanding officer of the Sweetbrier, a 180-foot buoy tender; executive officer of the Hornbeam, a 180-foot buoy tender; training officer on the Coast Guard barque Eagle and aboard the Edisto, a 269-foot icebreaker.
Ernie Blanchard was a good friend of mine, and was responsible for some truly wonderful USCG achievements and memories before the events recounted here.
And for years, when one dear USCG buddy of mine and I headed over to Arlington Cemetery together to visit friends and relatives laid to rest there, Ernie's grave was always one of our stops.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ejblanch.htm   (1192 words)

  
 USCGC ALERT AVAILABLE FOR TOURS
The U.S.Coast Guard Cutter Alert (WMEC-630) from Astoria, Ore., will be available for public tours Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m.
This 210-foot medium endurance cutter's primary mission is law enforcement, search and rescue and fishery patrols.
Since 9/11 the cutter has conducted more than 50 boardings, 154 helicopter evolutions and has made some exciting port calls.
www.piersystem.com /go/doc/21/8299   (138 words)

  
 United States Coast Guard Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lieutenant Colin MacInnes is a native of North Carolina and a 2001 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
During his first tour, he served as Damage Control Assistant on the 210' Medium Endurance Cutter Diligence in Wilmington, N.C. Through this tour, he oversaw two successful Tailored Annual Cutter Training (TACT) cycles and three maintenence availabilities, and participated in the cutter's Law Enforcement and Over-the-Horizon interception programs.
From 2003 to 2005, Lt. MacInnes served as Executive Officer of the 110' Patrol Boat Galveston Island, based in Apra Harbor, Guam. For nearly a year, Galveston Island operated as the only cutter in the Marianas/Western Pacific Area Of Responsibility (AOR).
www.uscga.edu /cadetlife/bio_macinnes.aspx   (146 words)

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