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 potion of the North Carolina Coast. Secondary missions include marine environmental protection, light icebreaking, search and rescue, and security. She is assigned to the Fifth Coast Guard District.[1]
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USCGCFrankDrew (WLM-557) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. Launched in 1998, she is home-ported in Portsmouth,...
St. Petersburg, Florida USCGCFrankDrew (WLM-557); Portsmouth, Virginia USCGC Anthony Petit (WLM-558);Ketchikan, Alaska USCGC Barbara Mabrity (WLM-559);...
March 1999. She was replaced in Portsmouth by the Keeper-class cutter USCGCFrankDrew. Under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, surplus military equipment...
cutter formerly known as USS Edenton to Haley by recommissioning it as USCGC Alex Haley in July 1999. The cutter currently serves from Kodiak, Alaska...
States sent USS Porter and USCGC Alder. USS Porter is a United States Navy guided missile destroyer commissioned in 1999. USCGC Alder is a United States...
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at the time was more lucrative and prestigious. On 19 October 1867 Rhone drew alongside RMS Conway in Great Harbour, Peter Island for bunkering. The original...
mid-ocean ditching and rescue of all 31 on board by the US Coast Guard cutter USCGC Pontchartrain. The airplane fuselage sank with no one on board a few minutes...
first class of larger cutters to utilize gas turbines, the first of which (USCGC Hamilton) was commissioned in 1967. Since then, they have powered the U...
history. A central spiral will connect the floors together. This proposal drew mixed reactions from the public. Most respondents to online polls were in...
after 1958, new modern facilities were all built on Peale. The cargo ship USCGC Kukui supported construction of the new LORAN facilities, arriving at the...
to his style as "dynamic cubism," an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions...
peacetime disasters for the United States Coast Guard, 17 crewmen of the USCGC White Alder (WLM-541) were killed when the buoy tending ship was sheared...
Francescato, said in a statement that she was disgusted with Stelios' conduct. She drew similarities with the Moby Prince disaster, an unrelated collision in which...
the Coast Guard cutter where Kerry had received medical treatment, the USCGC Spencer. but relevant Navy documents indicate that the report was likely...
hailed me shortly after the Myron went down from under me. The McIntosh drew alongside me, not more than 16 feet (4.9 m) away. Although it was dusk, the...
homeport for U.S. Coast Guard cutters, including USCGC Gallatin (WHEC-721), USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722), and USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716). The Coast Guard split the...
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