Wednesday, September 5, 2018

SMILAX - QUEEN OF FLEET



Photos: U.S. Coast Guard, Wikipedia

USCGC Smilax (WAGL/WLIC-315)
  is the "Queen of the Fleet" - the oldest active Coast Guard cutter. Commissioned in 1944, the inland construction tender is based at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. Smilax 
is responsible for maintaining 1,226 fixed ATONS as well as 26 bouys throughout the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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