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USCGC Thunder Bay (WTGB-108) is the eighth vessel of the Bay-class tugboat built in 1985 and operated by the United States Coast Guard. [1] The ship was named after a bay in the U.S. state of Michigan on Lake Huron. She is homeported in Rockland, Maine
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Thunder Bay (WTGB-108) clears a channel for vessels to navigate the frozen Hudson River Main article: Bay-class tugboat USCGC Katmai Bay (WTGB-101)
The Bay-class tugboat is a class of 140-foot (43 m) icebreaking tugboats of the United States Coast Guard, with hull numbers WTGB-101 through to WTGB-109.. They can proceed through fresh water ice up to 20 inches (51 cm) thick, and break ice up to 3 feet (0.91 m) thick, through ramming.
The Coast Guard intercepted a boat with 16 illegal aliens on board about 15 miles off the coast of Mission Bay in California on Sunday morning.. The Coast Guard said in a press release that at ...
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.The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."
Any Coast Guard crew with officers or petty officers assigned has law-enforcement authority (14 USC Sec. 89) and can conduct armed boardings. The Coast Guard operates 243 Cutters, [2] defined as any vessel more than 65 feet (20 m) long, that has a permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew. [3]
The vessel was christened by first lady Michelle Obama in July 2010, and delivered to the Coast Guard in September 2011. [45] She is now in service in Alameda. Construction on the fourth NSC, Hamilton, began in 2011. She was delivered to the Coast Guard in September 2014. In December 2009, a fleet mix analysis phase study called for nine NSCs. [46]
They were near a group of remote islands in the Bahamas that are a frequent stop for migrants headed toward South Florida.