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The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 83-foot patrol boats (also called cutters) were all built by Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York during World War II.The first 136 cutters were fitted with a tapered-roof Everdur silicon bronze wheelhouse but due to a growing scarcity of that metal during the war, the later units were fitted with a flat-roofed plywood wheelhouse. [4]
The Point-class cutter was a class of 82-foot patrol vessels designed to replace the United States Coast Guard's aging 83-foot wooden hull patrol boat being used at the time. The design utilized a mild steel hull and an aluminum superstructure.
Dixie Chopper was founded by Hoosier Art Evans in 1980. In February 2014 Dixie Chopper was purchased by Jacobsen/Textron. [1] However, on December 5, 2018, Textron notified dealers that they had ceased production of the Dixie Chopper. [2] On August 5, 2019, Alamo group announced that they had acquired the assets of Dixie Chopper from Jacobsen ...
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A gaff cutter, Kleine Freiheit, with a genoa jib set USCGC Legare, an example of a US Coast Guard cutter A cutter is any of various types of watercraft.The term can refer to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used ...
Westside High School QB Cutter Woods (6-3, 205) has been on quite the roll. He led the Anderson-based Rams to a state championship last season as a junior and emerged as the state’s top ...
The 378-foot WHEC cutter program which created the Hamilton class was initiated in the 1960s. The Hamilton-class cutters were intended to fulfill both the peacetime and wartime requirements of the Coast Guard. [13] Construction at Avondale Shipyards on the lead ship, the Hamilton, began in the 1960s and the cutter was commissioned on March 18 ...
Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks, has died. She was 65. Lynch died in a car crash in West Texas on Friday evening, her cousin Michael Lynch told CBS News. Bass player Lynch ...