Marine Safety, Security, Science &
Environmental Protection
Including Famous Shipwrecks & Other Major Marine Disasters
The wreck of the Liberian
tanker Argo Merchant off Nantucket, 1976
General Historical Information on Marine Safety,
Inspection, Licensing &
Security, Including the History of the Steamboat Inspection Service & Bureau
of Navigation
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Steamboat Inspectors Manual: Laws Governing the
Steamboat Inspection Service, 1895 (courtesy of Google Books)
- Steamboat
Inspection Service: Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine
and Fisheries, 1916 (courtesy of Google Books)
-
Steamboat-Inspection Service: Its History, Activities
and Organization, by Lloyd M. Short, 1922 (courtesy of Google Books)
- The Coast
Guard At War: Marine
Inspection,
December 7, 1941 - July 18, 1944 (Volume 13 of the Coast Guard at
War Official World War II History Series)
Marine Safety, Security & Stewardship Personnel
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Marine Safety Roll of Honor: Marine Safety Personnel Lost in the Line of Duty
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Captain Domenic A. Calicchio, a pioneering Coast Guard Marine Safety expert, who headed the investigation on the 1983 loss of the M/V Marine Electric among other accomplishments in a long and distinguished career in the merchant marine and Coast Guard.
Marine Science, Stewardship & Environmental
Protection
- Sunken Tanker Project Report, 1968: The Coast Guard surveyed a number of tankers that had been sunk during World War II to assess their possible environmental impact.
- Captain Quentin Walsh's Oral History: Captain Walsh discusses his experiences as a whaling inspector on board the American-flagged Norwegian whaling factory ship Ulysses, from 26 May 1937 to 11 April 1938. The Ulysses cruised for 30,000 miles and killed over 3,600 whales. In the middle of his tour, Walsh was asked to enforce new whaling regulations under the 1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling. Click here to access his official report.
- "LCDR Edward 'Iceberg' Smith, '13, and the 1931 Arctic Expedition of the German Airship Graf Zeppelin," an article by William H. Thiesen as published in the April 2010 issue of the Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association's publication The Bulletin, pp. 58-62.
- Suggestions to the Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Stations, Light-Houses, and Light-Ships, and to Other Observers, Relative to the Best Means of Collecting and Preserving Specimens of Whales and Porpoises [for study by the Smithsonian Institution], 1883.
- The Weather Patrol: Volume VII of The Coast Guard at War series. Includes information on the patrols as conducted during World War II and the early post-World War II peace-time patrols.
- A History of the Coast Guard's Ocean-Weather Station Program by Captain R. P. Dinsmore, USCG (Ret.).
- "The U.S. Coast Guard's Office of R&D: Its Initial Half-Life (1968-1979)": A Memoir by Dr. Charles C. Bates, Science Advisor to the Commandant, 1968-1979.
- 2002 Gulf SONS: Spill of National Significance Joint After Action Report
- 2004 California SONS: California Spill of National Significance (2004 California SONS)After Action Report (10 September 2004)
- 2007 SONS: 2007: Spill of National Significance Exercise (SONS 07) After Action Report (18 December 2008)
- Environmental Activities of the U.S. Coast Guard. CRS Report RS22145, 2010.
Port Security, Captains of the Port, Maritime Safety
& Security
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A History of the Coast Guard's Captains of the Port
The Coast Guard At War: Port Security (Volume 18 of the Coast Guard at War Official World War II History Series, 1949).
- "Coast Guard" Captain of the Port and Harbor Patrol "Activities on City Island, New York, during World War II," by CDR Timothy Dring, USNR (Ret.)
- Seaman 2/c John Cullen's oral history: Cullen was the Coast Guardsman on beach patrol on Long Island when he came across a team of Nazi saboteurs who had just landed from a U-boat.
- "The El Estero Fire and How the US Coast Guard Helped Save New York Harbor"; an article on the 1943 disaster in New York harbor that could have destroyed much of the city, by William H. Thiesen as published in Sea History 126 (Spring 2009), pp. 16-19.
Marine Casualties, Shipwrecks & Other Famous Maritime Disasters
- Natural disasters and other Incidents of National Significance that the Coast Guard responded to over the course of its history.
- Search and rescue case regarding the grounding of the Sailing Vessel Paramita in Alaska in 1914. Cutters Unalga and Tahoma responded to the wreck of the Paramita and mutiny by the sailing vessel's passengers and crew.
The Italian passenger liner
Andrea
Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish liner
Stockholm, 25 July
1956, off Nantucket Island.
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