Coastguard Videos, Reports, and Responses to Mariners

Mishaps & rescues - Connecticut and New York - Jan.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

A boat crew from Coast Guard Station New London, Conn., takes attendees of Station New London's response boat ceremony for a tour Oct. 28 on the station's new 45-foot response boat. The vessel is the first to be delivered to the station to replace the aging 41-foot utility boats that have been in use for more than 25 years.

Mishaps Mid-Atlantic - January

Four men on a capsized hull

A Coast Guard rescue boat crewmember from Station Manasquan Inlet, N.J., throws a heaving line Nov. 6 to a man on a capsized 17-foot boat one nautical mile off Point Pleasant. Point Pleasant, N.J.

A Coast Guard small-boat crew rescued four men from a capsized vessel near Point Pleasant, N.J.

Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet received a distress call over a hand-held marine-band radio at 11:30 a.m. reporting that a 17-foot pleasure craft had capsized about one nautical mile from Point Pleasant.

Mishaps - Mid-Atlantic

WELCOME TO THE FLEET

John R. Leopold, Anne Arundel (Md.) County executive, christens the hull of the 35-foot emergency-response vessel Arundel Patriot Sept. 24 during a commissioning ceremony at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Md. The Arundel Patriot is the first aluminum catamaran to be placed in service by the Anne Arundel County police and fire departments. More than 100 people attended the christening of the county's first joint emergency-response boat.

Mishaps - New England

FAR FROM SHORE

The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Legare prepares Oct. 5 to tow the 77-foot fishing vessel Michael & Kristen. The Michael & Kristen, with five aboard, became disabled 145 miles southeast of Chatham, Mass., at around 4:30 p.m. Oct. 4.

Mishaps - Connecticut and New York

WATCH DOG

The Coast Guard cutter Ridley, a patrol boat home-ported in Montauk, N.Y., enforces security zones in the East River Sept. 20 during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. A permanent security zone has been in place since Sept. 11, 2001 and restricts vessel traffic within 175 yards of Manhattan in the west channel of the East River. Commercial vessels must check in with Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service New York on VHF channel 12 prior to entering the channel.

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