The CGC Escape will be towed to a breaker yard in Chesapeake tomorrow 9/8/2009.

"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601989.html"

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And you're still sailing a sister ship from that same era. Kind of a sad statement that Coast Guardsmen are still having to go to sea in floating, antiquated junk yards.

Too true.

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shackle_%28ARS-9%29"

With the UTE & LIPAN sitting on the bottom, ESCAPE heading to the smoke wrench, the "3 little piggies" will end up as a memory for one of the segments of the "old Guard".

That is SAD old CG ships scrapped
The old Mackinaw is a museum I think on Mackinw Island in Michigan My husband served on her for several years.

Like kidney stones, all things must pass,

Those old cutters may all eventually end up the same. It is very $$$$$ to keep them in good shape as museums and sooner or later, organizations shut down, and either the artificial reef or the "smoke wrench" end up as a final resting place.

Well my dads old ship he worked on a Tug Boat he would take barges to an island and land the barges the man from the island took a boat out to the tug the man from the island signed off of the carco my dad was working until age 65 he quit.

Here's an old cutter that is sitting up in Homer, Alaska, waiting to be sold or sunk. She's the last Revenue Cutter Service still afloat, but, there's just no money to do anything with her. She's of the same design as the Revenue Cutter HUDSON, noted for her service in the Spanish American War. A fair chunk of steamship history will be lost.

That picture was FABULOUS thanks

Thanks for the link, Pat - I stood the first CG BMOW watch in Escape, I piped the crew aboard during the commissioning ceremony. (I was a BM2 in the PreCom Det.)

An amazing ship, real capable and a BM's dream. Had a great time in her. Rather be shaving with her than watching her rot up in the James River fleet (which is exactly where she was the first time I laid eyes on her, pushin 30 years ago.)