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A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols Main Street in Melville, Louisiana, during 1927 Mississippi River flood.
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On April 24, 1943, the freighter SS El Estero caught fire after loading a cargo of ammunition at Bayonne, New Jersey, threatening a catastrophic explosion in New York Harbor. Two Coast Guard fireboats responded along with New York City fireboats and shore-based firefighters. As the fire raged out of control, the Coast Guard decided to scuttle the ship but the seacocks were inaccessible. Tugs then towed the burning freighter to deeper water where it listed to starboard and sank. The fire was ruled as accidental.
Photo: U.S. Coast Guard
On March 17, 1902, seven members of the Monomoy Life-Saving Station on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, drowned trying to reach the wrecked coal barge Wadena in a gale. "Capt. Marshall N. Eldredge, one of the oldest lifesavers on the coast, went down with his men," The New York Times reported at the time. "There is no Government pension for those whose husbands and fathers are lost in the lifesaving service. so that the lot of the families who are left is a hard one." Five men on the Wadena also died, the Times said.
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It was a World War Two mystery. The Coast Guard-manned weather ship USS Muskeget vanished in the North Atlantic with a crew of 120 in September 1942. It later emerged that the ship had been torpedoed by U-boat U-755.
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U.S. Revenue Cutter Hugh McCulloch participated in the 1898 Spanish-American War, joining the naval fleet at the Battle of Manila in the Philippines. It moved onto other assignments in the Pacific Ocean and Alaska. McCulloch met a tragic end, sinking June 13, 1917 near Point Conception, California, after a collision with the steamer Governor in fog. The wreck of the McCulloch was located in 2016, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The crew evacuated but one man later succumbed to injuries.
On April 24, 1943, the freighter SS El Estero caught fire after loading a cargo of ammunition at Bayonne, New Jersey, threatening a catastrophic explosion in New York Harbor. Two Coast Guard fireboats responded along with New York City fireboats and shore-based firefighters. As the fire raged out of control, the Coast Guard decided to scuttle the ship but the seacocks were inaccessible. Tugs then towed the burning freighter to deeper water where it listed to starboard and sank. The fire was ruled as accidental.
Photo: U.S. Coast Guard
On March 17, 1902, seven members of the Monomoy Life-Saving Station on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, drowned trying to reach the wrecked coal barge Wadena in a gale. "Capt. Marshall N. Eldredge, one of the oldest lifesavers on the coast, went down with his men," The New York Times reported at the time. "There is no Government pension for those whose husbands and fathers are lost in the lifesaving service. so that the lot of the families who are left is a hard one." Five men on the Wadena also died, the Times said.
Photo: U.S. Coast Guard
It was a World War Two mystery. The Coast Guard-manned weather ship USS Muskeget vanished in the North Atlantic with a crew of 120 in September 1942. It later emerged that the ship had been torpedoed by U-boat U-755.
Photos: Wikipedia, NOAA
U.S. Revenue Cutter Hugh McCulloch participated in the 1898 Spanish-American War, joining the naval fleet at the Battle of Manila in the Philippines. It moved onto other assignments in the Pacific Ocean and Alaska. McCulloch met a tragic end, sinking June 13, 1917 near Point Conception, California, after a collision with the steamer Governor in fog. The wreck of the McCulloch was located in 2016, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The crew evacuated but one man later succumbed to injuries.
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