Download or read book Coast Guard Cutters At Sea written by Lynn Stone and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores The Coast Guard Vessels Used In A Variety Of Different Missions And Activities.
Download or read book U S Coast Guard Cutters and Craft 1946 1990 written by Robert L. Scheina and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bloodstained Sea written by Michael G. Walling and published by Cutter Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through eyewitness accounts based on hundreds of interviews with crew members; personal diaries, notes, and letters; and each cutter's logbooks and patrol reports Walling plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing missions of the Second World War. Told largely in the voices of the men who lived it, this unforgettable tale is peppered with humorous and ironic anecdotes about life aboard ship during wartime. You'll meet the liberty-craving crew members who painted their entire ship in less than an hour; the ship's mascot who became canine-non-grata in Greenland; and the crew whose vessel was mistaken for the German battleship Bismarck and attacked by the Royal Navy. Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to vibrant and pulsing life.
Download or read book U S Navy Ships and Coast Guard Cutters written by Van Orden, M. D. and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs introduce the characteristics and purposes of the various types of ships in the present-day Navy.
Download or read book U S Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters 1790 1935 written by Donald L. Canney and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1,000 vessels are included in this the first complete and systematic listing of U.S. Revenue Service and Coast Guard vessels through 1935.
Download or read book Bloody Winter written by John M. Waters and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling story of the Allies' narrow escape from defeat at the hands of Nazi submarines in the North Atlantic.
Download or read book Guardians of the Eighth Sea written by T Michael O'Brien and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the United States, local residents customarily view their hometown U.S. Coast Guard units as intimate parts of the civilian community. Nowhere is this truer than in the Great Lakes region. Here, for almost 200 years, the lives of the people and Coast Guardsmen have been intermingled in a most special bond.As enterprising Americans pressed westward along the southern shores of these primeval lakes and upon them, aids to navigation in the form of lighthouses and buoys, and armed revenue cutters were promptly provided by the Federal Government to facilitate their progress. Other varied services of the entity destined to become known as the U.S. Coast Guard, whether lifesaving stations, inspections of steam vessels or regulation of navigational waterways, were provided as needs arose, until today, the Service is ubiquitous on the Inland Seas.
Download or read book Coast Guard Cutters written by Lynn M. Stone and published by Rourke Educational Media. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores The Coast Guard Vessels Used In A Variety Of Different Missions And Activities.
Download or read book United States Revenue and Coast Guard Cutters in Naval Warfare 1790 1918 written by Thomas P. Ostrom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790--when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine--through World War I, this book describes the service's national defense missions, including actions during the War of 1812, clashes with pirates, slave ships and Seminole Indians, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I the USCG supported U.S. Navy operations across the Atlantic, escorted merchant convoys and engaged in anti-submarine warfare. Original maps are included.
Download or read book Patrol Cutters for Coast Guard written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation Into the Seakeeping Characteristics of the U S Coast Guard 140 FT WTGB Class Cutters written by T. R. Applebee and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four day sea trial was conducted aboard the United States Coast Guard Cutter MOBILE BAY (WTGB-103) for the purpose of assessing the seakeeping performance characteristics of this vessel class. Time correlated ship motion measurements as well as crew performance data were obtained. Trial results indicate that excessive wetness and rolling as well as substantial crew performance impairments will occur in even mild seas of 6-foot significant wave height. A simple method for collecting crew performance data was demonstrated. Results demonstrate the best speed/heading combinations and highlight ship locations where habitation may be a problem. Analytical predictions for the WTGB were made and compared to those of the 95-ft WPB Class cutter whose motion responses represent a known baseline of seakeeping qualities. Analytical results demonstrate that the 140-ft WTGB exhibits less ship motion than the 95-ft WPB except in roll, where sensitivity to natural roll period and the modal wave periods of the seaways become a factor. Predicted human performance data indicates a general superiority of the WTGB in all but quartering seas. An additional sea trial is recommended to compare directly the 140-ft WTGB and the 95-ft WPB in order to validate the analytical seasickness results presented herein. (Author).
Download or read book Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-14 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakersâ€"three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
Download or read book Coast Guard Cutter Taney written by Bob Ketenheim and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned in 1936, The Taney was one of seven Secretary-class cutters built for the US Coast Guard during the Great Depression. She served continuously for 50 years, including service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The Taney was in Honolulu during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and participated in the defense of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. During World War II, she saw service in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. The Taney spent several years on ocean weather station duty in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Later, she patrolled the East Coast of the United States, performing drug interdiction duties. The Taney is the only surviving ship that was present during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She was decommissioned in 1986 and has since been a museum ship in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where she hosts an annual Pearl Harbor commemoration on December 7.
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Coast Guard written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Crew written by Jim Howe and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice. In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a “multi-crewing” concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors—the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews—rotating among three hulls. Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard’s war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.
Download or read book Coast Guard Readiness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Coast Guard written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
