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Coast Guard Station number Reference Coast Guard Station Boston: Boston: Unknown 2003 1996 Active No N/A N/A Unknown [30] Coast Guard Station Brant Point: Nantucket: Unknown Active Unknown [31] Coast Guard Station Brant Rock: Marshfield: 1892–1893 1953 Yes Unknown 2nd 29 [32] Coast Guard Station Cahoons Hollow: Wellfleet: 1872–1873 1950 10 ...
The four bases were partially inactivated at the end of hostilities of World War II. Shortly thereafter, however, the bases at Little Creek, because of their central location on the Atlantic coast, excellent and varied beach conditions, proximity to the naval facilities of Norfolk, berthing facilities for amphibious ships through the size of LSTs, and other advantages, were consolidated into ...
The base was named for Major General John Patten Story (1841–1915), a noted coast artilleryman of his day. During World War I, Fort Story was integrated into the Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay, which also included Fort Monroe (the headquarters) [2] and Fort Wool. Fort Story remained a Coast Artillery Corps post until after World War II. The ...
USCGC Frank Drew (WLM-557) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard.Launched in 1998, she is home-ported in Portsmouth, Virginia.Her primary mission is maintaining over 300 aids to navigation in lower Chesapeake Bay, the rivers that flow into it, and a portion of the North Carolina Coast.
The 246th Coast Artillery was organized 12 August 1924 as the Virginia National Guard component of the Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay (HD Chesapeake), Virginia. The regiment's principal armory was in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Chesapeake 1000 – a gargantuan floating crane – arrived Friday near the scene where a 213-million-pound cargo vessel slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, destroying the vital ...
The first Coast Guard shore stations were established after 1924, when the Coast Guard's mission expanded. The first shore station was at Rockaway Point Coast Guard Station, located at Fort Tilden, New York; and the network expanded to Nahant, Massachusetts; New London, Connecticut; Cape May, New Jersey; Cape Henry, Virginia (with the call sign NMN); Fernandina, Florida; Fort Lauderdale ...
The U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday it's searching for five people after a fishing boat reportedly capsized in rough weather and seas near Alaska's capital of Juneau. The crew of… Fox Weather 1 day ago