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chief74Ret
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USCGC Maple WLB207


Commissioned October 19, 2001, Coast Guard Cutter Maple is a 225-foot, Juniper-Class Buoy Tender. Our Area of Responsibility (AOR) covers the inside waters of Southeast Alaska, ranging from the capital city of Juneau to Ketchikan. In these 1000 miles of intricate, breath-taking waterways you will discover remote villages, wild animals and uninhabited islands surrounded by the Tongass National Forrest. While on patrol in these waterways Maple conducts search and rescue (SAR), fisheries law enforcement, pollution response, and aids to navigation.

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Funny. . . (and good). Who cares about purging!

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chief74Ret. . .

Hey, now you purged your own post. You should have left it up. There's not enough humor on this thread. Smile

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Okay then, let's try this one (again):

lweruc

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Thought that would be a "stumper," because it's not listed on the Complete List of Coast Guard Cutters & Craft

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Originally configured as a standard schooner, with gaffed foresail, Curlew was redesigned in 1938 to her current configuration as a Staysail schooner.

Curlew was donated on the 31st of January 1940 to the Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, New York where she served as a sail-training vessel and saw coastal submarine patrol duty for the Coast Guard during WWII. In 1944 she was transferred to USCG Group New Haven in Connecticut where she served as a training vessel until 1948 where once again she was transferred, this time to the US Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey.

According to Bill Andree, who sailed on Curlew in 1954, every boot camp company got to go out for a one day training exercise. In a note from Robert Nogueira, who spent a week on her in late 1956 or early 1957, she was still being used as part of a basic training program, and further he reports that he had been told that in 1960, she was even sailed by President Kennedy (this has not been confirmed).

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Curlew was still at Cape May when I went through boot camp in 1959.

Here she is ---->

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Here's another one....

rriocue

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Courier


Correct!

"Rhodes, Greece, 1958 [sic]."; no photo number; photo by David M. Newell.

Photo provided courtesy of David M. Newell. He noted that the "three black canvas signal flags flying from the front mast was a NOTAM to keep other ships away from us as we had set a couple of ships with loose stuff on their main deck (like bails of cotton) on fire."

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CUSGC CARLINEE
 
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USCGC RELIANCE

Either WSC-150 -- Active Class "Buck and a Quarter"

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WMEC-615

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CRAWFORD (EX) SWIFTSURE

There was also a lightship named Swiftsure (Lightship 83) -- Not sure if she held that name while under CG command. See Here.



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How about:

hasiidlmerlwaw.


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Lightships were never OFFICIALLY "named" upon commissioning - only numbered. They did have the name of the station they were currently assigned to painted on the hull as an aid-to-navigation.

Unofficial practice was to refer to them by the station name they were currently assigned to.

However, for the last lightship station off Nantucket, there were 2 lightships, Nantucket I and Nantucket II, but I don't know if these were "official" names or not. I know somebody on here - sinbad or MastersMate - would know, as 1 of them was 1 of the last CO's.

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If they took on the name of the station then that was the name of the Lightship. Big Grin
 
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Since that's settled (or not Confused), I say again:

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How about:

hasiidlmerlwaw.


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see my edits above... Wink
 
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If they took on the name of the station then that was the name of the Lightship. Big Grin


Not quite. There were also several RELIEF Lightships, which had RELIEF painted on their sides. They also used the name of the station they were on. Can’t have two ships with the same station name, hence the Lightship number for official use. Smile
 
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