BOSTON — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to their homeport of Kittery, Maine, after a successful 62-day patrol in the North Atlantic, Tuesday.

As an essential component in the Coast Guard’s variety of offshore missions, Campbell’s crew conducted 72 fisheries and recreational boardings, ensuring compliance with safety regulations and enforcing fisheries laws during the patrol, and conducted a search and rescue case involving a reported lost kayaker near Nahant, Mass. 

Campbell was also a part of a search and rescue exercise involving multiple naval and air assets, including Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, the 1st Coast Guard District, Station Castle Hill and Station Point Judith in Rhode Island, and Air Station Cape Cod in Massachusetts. With on scene endurance unique to the Coast Guard’s offshore assets, Campbell acted as the on scene coordinator during the exercise. 

Working with Air Station’s Elizabeth City, Cape Cod, and Atlantic City, the crews conducted over 250 helicopter evolutions on five separate occasions.

The Campbell is a 270-foot Medium Endurance Cutter homeported in Kittery at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

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BOSTON — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to their homeport of Kittery, Maine, after a successful 62-day patrol in the North Atlantic, Tuesday.

As an essential component in the Coast Guard’s variety of offshore missions, Campbell’s crew conducted 72 fisheries and recreational boardings, ensuring compliance with safety regulations and enforcing fisheries laws during the patrol, and conducted a search and rescue case involving a reported lost kayaker near Nahant, Mass. 

Campbell was also a part of a search and rescue exercise involving multiple naval and air assets, including Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, the 1st Coast Guard District, Station Castle Hill and Station Point Judith in Rhode Island, and Air Station Cape Cod in Massachusetts. With on scene endurance unique to the Coast Guard’s offshore assets, Campbell acted as the on scene coordinator during the exercise. 

Working with Air Station’s Elizabeth City, Cape Cod, and Atlantic City, the crews conducted over 250 helicopter evolutions on five separate occasions.

The Campbell is a 270-foot Medium Endurance Cutter homeported in Kittery at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

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NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, America’s Tall Ship is scheduled to arrive at River Street City Berth 1 in Savannah, Ga., Friday at 10 a.m.

The Eagle will port in Savannah as part of their 2012 cruise celebrating Operation Sail 2012 and the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

The Eagle will be open for free public tours during the following dates and times:

• May 4, 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
• May 5, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• May 6, 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.

At 295 feet in length, the Eagle is the largest tall ship flying the stars and stripes and the only active square rigger in U.S. government service.

Constructed in 1936 by the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, and originally commissioned as the Horst Wessel by the German Navy, the Eagle was taken by the United States as a war reparation following World War II.

With more than 23,500 square feet of sail and six miles of rigging, the Eagle has served as a floating classroom to future Coast Guard officers since 1946, offering an at-sea leadership and professional development experience.

A permanent crew of seven officers and 50 enlisted personnel maintain the ship and guide the trainees through an underway and in-port training schedule, dedicated to learning the skills of navigation, damage control, watchstanding, engineering and deck seamanship.

To follow the Eagle’s summer cruise, visit the ship’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CoastGuardCutterEagle.

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, America’s Tall Ship, is scheduled to arrive at the Bienville Wharf, Tuesday, at 2 p.m., as part of their 2012 cruise celebrating Operation Sail 2012 and the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

The Eagle will be open for free public tours Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

At 295 feet in length, the Eagle is the largest tall ship flying the stars and stripes and the only active square rigger in U.S. government service.

Constructed in 1936 by the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, and originally commissioned as the Horst Wessel by the German Navy, the Eagle was taken by the United States as a war reparation following World War II.

With more than 23,500 square feet of sail and six miles of rigging, the Eagle has served as a floating classroom to future Coast Guard officers since 1946, offering an at-sea leadership and professional development experience.

A permanent crew of seven officers and 50 enlisted personnel maintain the ship and guide the trainees through an underway and in-port training schedule, dedicated to learning the skills of navigation, damage control, watchstanding, engineering and deck seamanship.

To follow the Eagle’s summer cruise, visit the ship’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CoastGuardCutterEagle.

**Editors Note: There are only five spots available for media wishing to ride along during the inbound transit into New Orleans. Interested media should contact the Coast Guard District Eight External Affairs office at (504) 671-2020 to add your name to the list. With the limited space, if there are more than five interested media outlets, the Coast Guard will choose which media will ride aboard the Eagle. If the Coast Guard has to choose media outlets, pooling will be mandatory for those who ride along.

EVERETT, Wash. – The Coast Guard and Washington Dept. of Ecology are overseeing the response, to a partially submerged dry dock and tug, by Vigor Industrial at the Vigor Marine Shipyard in Everett, Monday.

Crews worked to stabilize a dry dock that partially sunk over the weekend in Everett, along with a tugboat that capsized as a result of the dry dock sinking.

Salvage crews have set the dock level so that it rests on the bottom at its mooring. One side of the dry dock sunk over the weekend.  Workers lowered the other side today. The tug, which had been on the dock for maintenance work, is afloat, listing 90 degrees on its starboard side.

The tug contains approximately 50,000 to 60,000 gallons of diesel fuel in its tanks. Crews sealed the tanks over the weekend to prevent a release of the oil into the water. Workers have surrounded the area with three rows of oil spill containment boom in case of a leak or spill.

There are no plans to right the tug today. Salvage experts hired by Vigor are developing a plan to do so, subject to Coast Guard and Ecology review and approval. Crews remain in place to ensure that the tug remains stable.

SEATTLE — A dry dock containing the 140-foot tug Invader has sunk causing the tug to capsize with an estimated 50,000-60,000 gallons of diesel on board, Mar. 18, 2012. The Coast Guard, Dept. of Ecology have responded to the incident and are currently monitoring the salvage operation. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard and Washington Dept. of Ecology are responding to a potential environmental hazard involving a sunken 200-foot section of dry dock that contained the 140-foot tug Invader, at the Vigor Marine Shipyard in Everett, Wash., Sunday.

The dry dock began sinking on Saturday evening and stopped at approximately 12 p.m., Sunday, after making contact with the sea floor. Both the dry dock and the Invader are partially submerged, with the Invader capsized on its starboard side. There is also paint, scissor lifts, and a propane fork lift on the dry dock. The cause for the sinking has not been determined.

The owner of the Invader has confirmed that an estimated 50,000-60,000 gallons of diesel is contained in the vessel’s fuel tanks.

Boom has been deployed around the perimeter of the dry dock and the tug to prevent the spreading of any potential leakage. A light sheen has been observed due to residual sources.

A salvage company is on scene and is currently conducting an assessment dive and plugging the tug’s vents.

The Coast Guard and Ecology will continue to monitor the salvage operation to ensure its conducted safely and with minimal impact on the marine environment.

For additional information contact the 13th Coast Guard District Public Affairs office at (206) 220-7237, or Jani Gilbert, Dept. of Ecology at (509) 990-9177.

NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp participated in a dedication ceremony for the Coast Guard’s fast response cutter fleet in Lockport, La., today.

The new 154-foot cutters being built by Bollinger Shipyards are a key aspect of the Coast Guard’s recapitalization program and provide the service with critical mission capabilities to protect America now and well into the future.

“The Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutter is an exceptional platform for Coast Guard operations,” said Papp. “These cutters are a game changer for our service.”

Important features of FRCs make them more capable of performing Coast Guard missions than the aging 110-foot Island Class patrol boats they will replace. These cutters provide larger and more stable platforms from which to conduct operations, safer small boat launch and recovery in heavy seas via stern ramp, the ability to detect threats at longer range, remotely operated weapons to protect the crew, and the capacity to remain on station at sea for longer periods of time.

The Coast Guard plans to build 58 FRCs, and each will be named for Coast Guard enlisted heroes. Initially, the cutters will be homeported in Miami and Key West, Fla., two busy operational areas for the Coast Guard.

The first FRC, Bernard C. Webber, will be commissioned in Miami on April 14.

The FRCs will be utilized for a variety of Coast Guard missions – primarily search and rescue, counter drug and migrant operations, enforcing fisheries regulations and homeland security – where they provide exceptional value, flexibility, and effective mission execution.

They are needed to perform these duties along the nation’s approximately 95,000 miles of coastline, 50,000 miles of navigable waters and 3.5 million square miles of maritime Exclusive Economic Zones. Their size and design is ideal for operating across these expansive areas.

“FRCs are an essential capability for our service,” said Papp. “I anticipate they will become key workhorses for our service, a role held today by the cutters they will replace.”

There are several significant dates in the birth of a ship, which typically include the keel laying, christening (normally associated with the launch into the water), and commissioning. Today’s dedication ceremony for the fast response cutter fleet replaces individual christening ceremonies as it’s more practical than an individual ceremony for each vessel given the number of cutters in this class.

The names for the 14 cutters have been determined at this time. Many family members of these cutter’s namesakes were on hand to view the event as a commissioning pennant and box was dedicated for each ship. Later, upon commissioning, cutters will receive their individual pennant and box.

“I am honored to be part of this unique ceremony,” said Papp. “In a service of dedicated professionals who perform heroic deeds on a daily basis, it was a privilege for me to officially dedicate cutters for the most exceptional Coast Guard men and women.”

The FRC is the new generation in a long history of Coast Guard patrol boats. It assures the Coast Guard will retain the ability to protect those on the sea, protect America from threats delivered by sea, and protect the sea itself.

Information reposted from Coast Guard Compass

NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp participated in a dedication ceremony for the Coast Guard’s fast response cutter fleet in Lockport, La., today.

The new 154-foot cutters being built by Bollinger Shipyards are a key aspect of the Coast Guard’s recapitalization program and provide the service with critical mission capabilities to protect America now and well into the future.

“The Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutter is an exceptional platform for Coast Guard operations,” said Papp. “These cutters are a game changer for our service.”

Important features of FRCs make them more capable of performing Coast Guard missions than the aging 110-foot Island Class patrol boats they will replace. These cutters provide larger and more stable platforms from which to conduct operations, safer small boat launch and recovery in heavy seas via stern ramp, the ability to detect threats at longer range, remotely operated weapons to protect the crew, and the capacity to remain on station at sea for longer periods of time.

The Coast Guard plans to build 58 FRCs, and each will be named for Coast Guard enlisted heroes. Initially, the cutters will be homeported in Miami and Key West, Fla., two busy operational areas for the Coast Guard.

The first FRC, Bernard C. Webber, will be commissioned in Miami on April 14.

The FRCs will be utilized for a variety of Coast Guard missions – primarily search and rescue, counter drug and migrant operations, enforcing fisheries regulations and homeland security – where they provide exceptional value, flexibility, and effective mission execution.

They are needed to perform these duties along the nation’s approximately 95,000 miles of coastline, 50,000 miles of navigable waters and 3.5 million square miles of maritime Exclusive Economic Zones. Their size and design is ideal for operating across these expansive areas.

“FRCs are an essential capability for our service,” said Papp. “I anticipate they will become key workhorses for our service, a role held today by the cutters they will replace.”

There are several significant dates in the birth of a ship, which typically include the keel laying, christening (normally associated with the launch into the water), and commissioning. Today’s dedication ceremony for the fast response cutter fleet replaces individual christening ceremonies as it’s more practical than an individual ceremony for each vessel given the number of cutters in this class.

The names for the 14 cutters have been determined at this time. Many family members of these cutter’s namesakes were on hand to view the event as a commissioning pennant and box was dedicated for each ship. Later, upon commissioning, cutters will receive their individual pennant and box.

“I am honored to be part of this unique ceremony,” said Papp. “In a service of dedicated professionals who perform heroic deeds on a daily basis, it was a privilege for me to officially dedicate cutters for the most exceptional Coast Guard men and women.”

The FRC is the new generation in a long history of Coast Guard patrol boats. It assures the Coast Guard will retain the ability to protect those on the sea, protect America from threats delivered by sea, and protect the sea itself.

Information reposted from Coast Guard Compass

NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp participated in a dedication ceremony for the Coast Guard’s fast response cutter fleet in Lockport, La., today.

The new 154-foot cutters being built by Bollinger Shipyards are a key aspect of the Coast Guard’s recapitalization program and provide the service with critical mission capabilities to protect America now and well into the future.

“The Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutter is an exceptional platform for Coast Guard operations,” said Papp. “These cutters are a game changer for our service.”

Important features of FRCs make them more capable of performing Coast Guard missions than the aging 110-foot Island Class patrol boats they will replace. These cutters provide larger and more stable platforms from which to conduct operations, safer small boat launch and recovery in heavy seas via stern ramp, the ability to detect threats at longer range, remotely operated weapons to protect the crew, and the capacity to remain on station at sea for longer periods of time.

The Coast Guard plans to build 58 FRCs, and each will be named for Coast Guard enlisted heroes. Initially, the cutters will be homeported in Miami and Key West, Fla., two busy operational areas for the Coast Guard.

The first FRC, Bernard C. Webber, will be commissioned in Miami on April 14.

The FRCs will be utilized for a variety of Coast Guard missions – primarily search and rescue, counter drug and migrant operations, enforcing fisheries regulations and homeland security – where they provide exceptional value, flexibility, and effective mission execution.

They are needed to perform these duties along the nation’s approximately 95,000 miles of coastline, 50,000 miles of navigable waters and 3.5 million square miles of maritime Exclusive Economic Zones. Their size and design is ideal for operating across these expansive areas.

“FRCs are an essential capability for our service,” said Papp. “I anticipate they will become key workhorses for our service, a role held today by the cutters they will replace.”

There are several significant dates in the birth of a ship, which typically include the keel laying, christening (normally associated with the launch into the water), and commissioning. Today’s dedication ceremony for the fast response cutter fleet replaces individual christening ceremonies as it’s more practical than an individual ceremony for each vessel given the number of cutters in this class.

The names for the 14 cutters have been determined at this time. Many family members of these cutter’s namesakes were on hand to view the event as a commissioning pennant and box was dedicated for each ship. Later, upon commissioning, cutters will receive their individual pennant and box.

“I am honored to be part of this unique ceremony,” said Papp. “In a service of dedicated professionals who perform heroic deeds on a daily basis, it was a privilege for me to officially dedicate cutters for the most exceptional Coast Guard men and women.”

The FRC is the new generation in a long history of Coast Guard patrol boats. It assures the Coast Guard will retain the ability to protect those on the sea, protect America from threats delivered by sea, and protect the sea itself.

Information reposted from Coast Guard Compass