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The Patapsco River Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System smart buoy. Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) is a network of observational buoys that are deployed throughout the Chesapeake Bay to observe the estuary's changing conditions and to serve as way points along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
In February 1983 she located the SS Marine Electric which sank in a storm that month off the coast of Virginia and placed a buoy to mark the wreck's location and warn mariners of the hazard it posed. In April 1984, Madrona entered the U.S. Coast Guard Shipyard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, to undergo a major renovation under the Coast Guard's ...
The USCGC Acacia (WAGL-406/WLB-406) is an Iris-class 180-foot seagoing buoy tender operated by the United States Coast Guard. Acacia was a multi-purpose vessel, nominally a buoy tender, but with equipment and capabilities for ice breaking, search and rescue, fire fighting, logistics, oil spill response, and other tasks as well.
USCGC Ironwood (WAGL-297/WLB-297) is a former Mesquite-class sea-going buoy tender operated by the United States Coast Guard.She served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War as well as a variety of domestic missions.
USCGC Red Oak (WLM-689) was a Red-class coastal buoy tender designed, built, owned, and operated by the United States Coast Guard.She was launched in 1971 and homeported at Gloucester City, New Jersey until Coast Guard Base Gloucester was closed in 1988.
The USLHS was absorbed into the Coast Guard in 1939, and the Juniper was designated a Coastal Buoy Tender, WLM 224. WLM 224 was a twin screw (propeller), diesel electric vessel. She became the rough prototype for the 180' class of ocean-going buoy tenders, designated WLB. The WLM 224 Juniper operated out of St. Petersburg, Florida. She serviced ...
Weldon Boyd, operator of Buoys on the Boulevard, has not been charged. The Solicitor’s Office is asking for a state review of case. North Myrtle Beach restaurant owner accused of shooting NC man ...
Her career at Sturgeon Bay was similar to that at Sault Ste. Marie with the seasonal removal and replacement of buoys, [23] frequent calls for ice breaking over the winter, and the occasional vessel in distress. On April 10, 1964, though, it was Mesquite that needed a rescue. She was placing buoys at the beginning of spring, as she had for years.