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Coast Guard Cutter decommissioned
The US Coast Guard decommissioned the 'Shearwater' during a ceremony at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May that was presided over by Capt. Jonathan Theel, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay, on April 15. She was one of the Coast Guard’s 70 remaining 87-foot Marine Protector-class patrol boats. TRACEN Cape May is now the homeport to three Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters. Commissioned in 2002, the 'Shearwater' was the 49th of 73 coastal patrol boats built for search and rescue, ports, waterways, and coastal security, living marine resource enforcement, marine safety, and marine environmental protection. Report with photo: https://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-cutter-shearwater-decommissioned-after-19-years-of-service/2021/04/15/
Patrol boat to be decommissioned
The US Coast Guard will decommission the 'Shearwater' after 19 years of service during an official ceremony at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, on April 15, 2021. She was one of the Coast Guard’s 70 remaining 87-foot Marine Protector-class patrol boats and homeported in Cape May, which is now home to three of the Coast Guard’s new 154-foot Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters. Commissioned in 2002, the 'Shearwater' was the 49th out of 73 coastal patrol boats built for search and rescue, ports, waterways, and coastal security, living marine resource enforcement, marine safety, and marine environmental protection.
Search for missing crash victim suspended
The "Shearwater" on Jan 9, 2014, suspended its search for the missing crewmember of a Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter that crashed on Jan 8 with five people aboard approximately 18 miles east of Cape Henry. A Navy aircrew initially contacted Coast Guard 5th District Command Center watchstanders at approximately 11 a.m. reporting the Sea Dragon crashed and another Navy aircrew dropped a life raft to the people in the water. Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and dispatched multiple crews aboard response boats from Coast Guard Station Little Creek and diverted the "Shearwater" to assist. At approximately 11:45 a.m. on Jan 8 two Navy helicopter crews hoisted four people from the water and took them to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Coast Guard and other crews actively searched for the missing crewmember for more than 33 hours while searching approximately 620 square nautical miles in overlapping search patterns. Report with photos: http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2065082/Coast-Guard-suspends-search-for-missing-crewmember-18-miles-east-of-Cape-Henry-Va-#sthash.3Z9eOgDZ.dpuf
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