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Ketchikan, Alaska
USCG Station Ketchikan is at the Gateway to the Alaskan frontier and the Seventeenth Coast Guard District. Ketchikan is the southernmost and fourth largest city in Alaska.
Ketchikan is Alaska's First City and is known as the Salmon Capital of the world. The city is located in the nation's largest national forest, the Tongass, which encompasses 17 million acres.
The Station was established in 1989 and is one of three Small Boat Stations in Alaska, the others are Station Juneau and Station Valdez.
We are co-located with Integrated Support Command (ISC) Ketchikan with other activities on the base including Electronics Support Detachment (ESD), USCGC Acushnet, a medium endurance cutter, USCGC Naushon, a 110 foot Patrol boat and Industrial services who maintain a vessel haul out for all Alaska cutters 110 feet and smaller and a Bouy depot for repairing Aids to Navigation.
Before being commmisioned as a Station in 1989 the Station was a "SAR Locker" as a division of Base Ketchikan going back as far as the 1940's when the first small boats arrived here.