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SOO-WAH-NEE

Thats the way we call hogs here.

sooowahneee piggy pig

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Thats the way we call hogs here

Not down here. We have too much gentility for that. We call hogs The Honorable Senator From New York.

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Hint: not a cutter, not a navy ship

USGS Ship????

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Originally posted by chief74Ret:
USGS Ship????

No, it's in the Coast Guard family.

More hints:

It's not from one of the Coast Guard's two parent services, more like an uncle I'd guess. Or an adopted son. Depends how you look at it.

This hint should be a giveaway for the service - it's a flower. One Garfield likes to eat, but I don't know if that's any help.

Lightship????????????

No, but you got the right service. It is a USLHS.

USLHS GERANIUM

We have a winner! Your turn to post a scramble.

CRUGSSTEAC

USCGC Aster

HEMCSBAR, this was both a USS and later USCGC

ooaycbs

"The workmanship on the vessel is generally quite superior to that observed on other vessels constructed during the war. The vessel has ample space for stores, living accommodations, ships, offices and recreational facilities. The main engine system is excellent. . . .The performance of the vessel in moderate to heavy seas is definitely superior to that of any other cutter. This vessel can be operated at higher speed without storm damage than other Coast Guard vessels."

Coos Bay

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/CoosBay_1949.html

On 27 February 1953, Coos Bay rescued the 10-man crew of a downed USN patrol aircraft midway between Bermuda and the Azores. On 11 March 1953 she assisted the tanker Angy. On 26 January 1955, Coos Bay rescued six crewmen of a downed USAF transport aircraft about 1,000 miles east of Bermuda. On 19 February 1964, Coos Bay rescued survivors from the British M/V Ambassador in the North Atlantic.

detoanm

Hint:

Built by the Coast Guard at Curtis Bay
She sailed for thirty years or more.
On convoy duties and weather patrols
Proudly, in peace and war.

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detoanm


http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Mendota_1945.html

I guess that was too easy...

Her bow rises up fast and high
Daylight under her keel
Slamming down with a tremendous sound
A thousand pound weight you feel.

Comfort is a word that is often forgotten
On ships that are built in time of war.
Constructed to do only one job,
Stripped, with luxury left ashore.

To stabilize her while she is underway,
On the bottom are fins of steel.
"Rolling Chocks" they are jokingly called
Which doesn't even slow her sideward reels.

To keep her dry and water tight,
There are bulkheads strong and true.
To move about, it is up and down,
Never a walk straight through.

Built by the Coast Guard at Curtis Bay
She sailed for thirty years or more.
On convoy duties and weather patrols
Proudly, in peace and war.

If she still exists, I do not know.
I feel sure that she is gone.
Stricken from the active vessels list,
She remained for so long.

Both good and bad luck she has had.
Her deeds were of little renown.
Like the time she lost her sonar dome
In mud, going fast aground.

Or the time when she was on Station Echo,
Two hours after giving relief.
Rescuing two Air Force pilots,
Whose refueling efforts came to grief.

Where ever she is, let her rest.
For this idleness is well deserved.
Now let us pass on to others,
Memories and lessons to be preserved.

She was named for an American lake,
Where lived free the Lakotas.
Not wandering the plains, but the woodlands
A rusty ship called Mendota.

--- Ralph H. Davis Jr. RMCS - Crossed the Bar October 1996

Mendota on OS Charlie (NRUS/4YC)



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