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"Marine Casualty Report: USCGC Blackthorn, SS Capricorn, Collision in Tampa Bay on 28 January 1980 with Loss of Life, U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation Report" (1980) USCG Blackthorn history webpage; National Park Service Report on the 180-foot (55 m) buoy tenders "U.S. Coast Guard Sea-going & Coastal Buoy Tenders, 1939–2000".
USCGC Northwind (WAG/WAGB-282) was a Wind-class icebreaker, the second United States Coast Guard Cutter of her class to bear the name. She was built to replace USCGC Staten Island which was in Soviet lend-lease service.
Though the Drug War began before the 1980s and continues to this day, it was during the 1980s that the Coast Guard, working with the Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement agencies, used a blend of new and old laws to interdict far from the shores of the United States. Formerly, it was more difficult to prosecute cases ...
The SA366 G1 Dauphin version was selected by the United States Coast Guard in 1979 as its new short range recovery (SRR) air-sea rescue helicopter, replacing the Sikorsky HH-52A Sea Guard. In total 99 helicopters, optimised for the USCG's search and rescue role tasks and given the designation HH-65A Dolphin, were acquired.
USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752) is the third Legend-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. It is the first "white hull" cutter named after a woman since the 1980s (USCGC Harriet Lane was launched in 1984). Stratton is named for Coast Guard Captain Dorothy C. Stratton (1899–2006).
The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as the Fast Response Cutter or FRC due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. [2] [3] [4] At 154 feet (46.8 m), it is similar to, but larger than, the 123-foot (37 m) lengthened 1980s-era Island-class patrol boats that it replaces.
The commandant of the US Coast Guard has been removed from her ... Coast Guard investigation that substantiated dozens of rapes and assault allegations at the agency from the late 1980s ...
The Casco class was a large class of United States Coast Guard cutters in commission from the late 1940s through the late 1980s. [1] They saw service as weather reporting ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans until the early 1970s, and some saw combat service during the Vietnam War.