SeaWaves Today in History August 22, 2008 565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness 1660 - Pierre Radisson & Medart des Groseilliers return to New France with big load of furs; later fined, and their furs confiscated, for trading without a license; they decide to approach the English about forming a company to trade into Hudson Bay 1711 - British Admiral Hovenden Walker's assault on New France falters as 8 of his 15 warships are wrecked in gales and heavy fog in the St. Lawrence; nearly 900 men drown; 25 ships remaining in fleet return to England 1740 - Ivan VI (1740-July 16, 1764) born. Nominal Russian emperor from October 1740 to December 1741. After the death of Empress Anna Ivanovna, the Russian throne passed to the son of her niece Anna Leopoldovna and Prince Anton of Braunschweig, the newborn Ioann Antonovich. Count Biron of Kurland was appointed his regent but he was soon arrested by the Guard at the behest of Field Marshall Mikhin and the regency passed to the emperor's mother. However, since Germans were still present at court, the Guard soon appealed to Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great. She decided to stage a coup and, in December 1741, soldiers from the Preobrazhensky division arrested all members of the Braunschweig family and Elizabeth became the new empress. The deposed emperor spent his years in solitary confinement in various prisons. When Elizabeth II was on the throne, Lieut. Vasily Yakovlevich Mirovich tried to free Ivan VI from Fort Schisselburg. The officers guarding the former emperor killed and Mirovich was later executed. Some see a resemblance between the life of Ivan VI and the last emperor, Nikolai II. Leaving aside the death of Nikolai's family, the death of Ivan VI, who was never guilty of anything, is much more tragic 1775 - England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion 1787 - John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton 1814 - War of 1812 - Destruction of Commodore Barney's flotilla in the Patuxent River 1851 - The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup. As the America swiftly sailed by her reviewing point, the young Queen Victoria is said to have asked who was second; the famous reply was, "Your Majesty, there is no second" 1880 - Writer Alexander Grin (Alexander Stepanovich Grinevsky) (1880-July 8, 1932) (Scarlet Sails, Riding the Waves) born 1896 - A number of members of the Union for the Fight to Free the Working Class were arrested in St. Petersburg, Lenin's wife N.K. Krupskaya among them Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sails Neptune from Halifax under command of A. P. Low of Geological Survey; to patrol, explore and establish Canadian authority in Hudson Bay and the Arctic. Low will later write an account called The Cruise of the Neptune 1910 - Japan annexes Korea 1912 - Birthday of USN Dental Corps 1914 - HMS D5 attacked and fired two torpedoes at the German Cruiser Rostock, no damage was caused 1916 - HMS E16 was last sighted thirty-five miles east of Yarmouth by HMS E38. E38 later observed a group of warships moving north, in the vicinity of Terschelling, Splashes were seen near to one of the warships which may have been depth charges exploding. Reports of enemy vessels attacking a periscope on the 22nd August may have been against E16 1916 - Submarine HMS G9 completed 1917 - Minesweeper USS Finch laid down 1918 - Destroyer HMAS Stuart launched 1918 - Battlecruiser HMS Hood launched 1918 - Destroyer USS Lamberton commissioned 1919 - Destroyer USS Marcus launched 1922 - Submarine USS S-26 launched 1922 - Destroyer FS Jaguar laid down 1928 - SS Victolite Capt Cecil Randolph Trewek RD, RNR (Ret'd) Imperial Oil Co, Authority #1091 to fly Blue Ensign 1929 - Destroyer HMS Arrow launched 1929 - Submarine HMS Pandora launched 1934 - Destroyer USS MacDonough launched 1934 - Destroyer HMS Garland laid down 1938 - Patrol vessel HMS Guillemot laid down 1939 - Destroyers HMS Quorn & Southdown laid down 1939 - The USSR and Germany sign non-aggression treaty. A secret protocol defining their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe was signed at the same time. The secret protocol covered their division of the real estate spoils that was planned to occur when Nazi German invaded Poland and eliminated its national existence. What came down was a demarcation line remarkably like that which existed prior to August of 1914, when Imperial Germany's and Czarist Russia's borders met 1939 - Minesweeper FS La Batailleuse launched 1940 - Corvette HMCS Alberni launched 1940 - Destroyer HMS Aldenham laid down 1940 - Corvette HMS Gloxinia commissioned 1940 - SS Thorold (1,689 GRT) Canadian merchant ship, was bombed & sunk by Luftwaffe Dornier Do-17 bombers, in the Irish Sea in position 51.46N, 005.38W. From her crew of 23, ten crewmembers were lost 1940 - The Luftwaffe attacked a convoy in the Dover Straits 1940 - Sloop HMAS Warrego commissioned 1941 - At 2331 U-564 fired a salvo of four torpedoes at Convoy OG-71 west of Aveiro, Portugal and observed four different detonations and three columns of fire, later lifeboats were seen. Suhren thought that he had sunk two ships and damaged two others. However, only two ships were hit and sunk, the British merchant ship Empire Oak (484 tons) and Irish merchant ship Clonlara (1,203 tons) in position 40.43N, 11.39W. The master & 12 crewmembers from the Clonlara were picked up by corvette HMS Campion and landed at Gibraltar on 24 August. Six crewmembers were lost. The master, three crewmembers and four gunners from the Empire Oak were picked up by corvette HMS Campanula, later transferred to destroyer HMS Velox and landed at Gibraltar on 25 August. 13 crewmembers were lost. On 19 August, the Empire Oak had picked up six survivors from Aguila and eleven survivors from Alva. The survivors from Aguila died when this ship was sunk, while the corvette also rescued the other survivors 1941 - Corvette HMCS Amherst arrived Halifax from builder Saint John NB 1941 - Minesweeper HMCS Lockeport launched 1941 - Corvette HMS Snowflake launched 1941 - Destroyer HMAS Derwent launched 1941 - U-564 sank SS Clonlara & SS Empire Oka in Convoy OG-71 1941 - Minesweeper HMCS Clayoquot commissioned 1941 - Minesweeper HMS Worthing launched 1941 - Submarine HMS P48 laid down 1942 - U-654 sunk in the Caribbean Sea north of Colon, in position 12.00N, 79.56W, by depth charges from a US B-18 Digby aircraft (US Army Bomb Sqn 45). 44 dead (all hands lost) 1942 - Corvette HMS Mandrake launched 1942 - Destroyer USS Blue scuttled after being torpedoed by Japanese destroyer Kawakaze in Savo Sound Solomon Islands 1942 - Frigate USS Asheville (ex-HMS Adur) launched 1942 - Destroyer escort USS Brennan launched 1942 - U-456 found the motor boat Chaika anchored off the Matyuschev Isle west of the Matochkin Strait and at 2300 took her in tow unnoticed by the Soviets. After searching the boat she was sunk by scuttling charges. Nothing valuable was found except of four infantry guns 1942 - Corvette USS Haste launched 1942 - Destroyer USS Ingraham sank after a violent collision with tanker USS Chemung in pea soup fog off the coast of Nova Scotia. The Ingraham was part of Task Force 37 escorting Convoy AT-20 to the United Kingdom. An internal explosion caused the ship to blaze from stem to stern. It was all over in a flash, the burning wreck vanishing beneath the waves taking the lives of 218 of her crew. There were only 11 survivors, one officer and 10 ratings all rescued by the Chemung's boat crews 1942 - U-507 sank neutral Swedish SS Hammaren in Convoy OS-36 1942 - U-419 launched 1942 - U-227 & U-449 commissioned 1942 - Light fleet carrier USS Independence launched 1942 - Corvette USS Intensity launched 1942 - Brazil declared war against Germany and Italy 1943 - Submarine USS Flounder launched 1943 - Destroyer escorts USS Micka, Reybold launched 1943 - Frigate USS Machias launched 1943 - U-768 launched 1943 - U-24 sank Soviet landing craft DB-36 & DB-37 1943 - U-458 sunk in the Mediterranean SE of Pantelleria, Italy, in position 36.25N, 12.39E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Easton and the Greek destroyer Pindos. 8 dead and 39 survivors 1944 - U-2331 launched 1944 - U-3003 commissioned 1944 - U-480 torpedoed and sank the Royal Navy Algerine Class minesweeper HMS Loyalty (ex HMS Rattler) in position 50.09N, 00.41W - Grid BF 3278 (off the Nab Tower) 1944 - Minesweeper USS Liberty launched 1944 - Destroyer escort USS Williams launched 1944 - Minesweeper USS Project commissioned 1944 - Submarine USS Sennet commissioned 1944 - Destroyer minelayer USS Thomas E Fraser commissioned 1944 - Frigate HMCS Antigonish arrived Halifax from builder Esquimalt BC 1944 - Light cruiser HMS Mauritius & destroyers HMS Ursa (pictured) & HMCS Iroquois engaged in Operation KINETIC patrol off Gironde, France. These patrols were designed to close the resupply routes to isolate German garrisons along the Atlantic seacoast. In the span of 2 hrs they encountered & engaged 2 small German coastal convoys. At 0200 they engaged 4 enemy vessels at a range of 2 miles. An armed trawler & 2 small merchantmen were sunk & a minesweeper was forced to run aground while under heavy fire. At 0351 they engaged another 4 enemy ships. This time 2 armed trawlers & 2 small merchant ships were sunk. In all, in 2 nights (14 Aug and 22 Aug) the 3 ships had sunk the minesweeper M385 (540 tons), the armed trawlers V702 (440 tons), V717 (1,000 tons), V702 and V720 (both 280 tons) & V730 (535 tons), the seaplane tender Richtoffen (1,375 tons) & damaged the Elbing-class destroyer T-24. Several small merchant ships were also sunk or damaged 1944 - Corvette HMCS Sherbrooke completed forecastle extension refit Liverpool NS 1944 - Tug HMCS Glenside launched Owen Sound ON 1944 - Frigate HMCS St Pierre commissioned 1944 - Escort carrier HMS Nabob in Operation Goodwood & another escort carrier (Trumpeter) had been detached from a larger force to fuel 3 destroyers. At 1700 Nabob was in position 120m WNW of North Cape, Barents Sea, 71-42N 19-11E, & ready to begin refueling Ops. At 17:15, a torpedo launched by U-354 Kapt/Lt Hans-Jurgen Sthamer CO, struck her on the starboard side that caused a 32-square foot hole abaft the engine room, below the waterline. At 1723 a second torpedo struck HMS Bickerton & sank her. Nabob's crew of 750, of which 450 were from Canada suffered 30 fatalities & 40 injured. Although Nabob was severely damaged the ship managed to return to the UK. Her survival is regarded as one of the greatest feats of damage control in the history of modern naval warfare. The ship was subsequently written off as a constructive loss, but later sold into civilian service. Ironically Nabob became a West German merchant ship of the same name and operated a liner service from Europe to Vancouver into the 1960s. Destroyer HMCS Algonquin took off 203 of Nabob's crew. U-354 was a VIIC type U-boat, built by Flensburger Schiffsbau-GES, Flensburg, Launched 6 Jan 42, commissioned 22 Apr 42 in service 28 months, she conducted 12 Patrols, with a record of 3 ships sunk for a total of 19,899 tons, & 2 ships damaged for a further 6,134 tons. U-354 was herself sunk 24 Aug 44 during Ops against convoy JW-59 by HMS Keppel, Mermaid, Peacock, Loch Dunvegan in the Barents Sea NE of North Cape in position 72-49N, 30-41E, of U-354's crew of 51 there were no survivors. Hans-Jurgen Sthamer was born in 1919, at Lübeck. He joined the navy in 1937. His first wartime service was in the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. In Mar 40 he went to the Aircraft Weapons School and then served with the II/KG 30 Group on anti-shipping duties until Feb 42, when he transferred to the U-boat Force. After conversion training he served as the First Watch Officer in U-593, U-604, and then U-91 until Dec 43. He was selected for command and underwent his U-boat commander's course from Dec 43 to Feb 44. He took command of U-354 on 20 Feb 44 1944 - U-344 sunk in the Barents Sea north-west of Bear Island, in position 74.54N, 15.26E, by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft from the escort carrier HMS Vindex (Sqn 825/X). 50 dead (all hands lost) 1944 - U-965 was attacked by two Martlet aircraft (Wildcats), 3 men were killed and 8 wounded. [Bootsmaat Kurt Pesch, Matrosengefreiter Heinz Schade, Maschinengefreiter Thiel] 1944 - Coast Guard-manned Army vessel FS-372 was commissioned at Sturgeon Bay WI with LT W. H. Bowden, USCGR, as commanding officer. She was assigned to and operated in the Southwest Pacific and Western Pacific areas during the war including Leyte, Lingayen, etc. 1945 - HMC ML 073 paid off 1945 - First surrender of Japanese garrison at end of World War II; USS Levy receives surrender of Mille Atoll in Marshall Islands 1946 - Submarine HMS Anchorite launched 1947 - Light cruiser HMCS Ontario suffered mutiny at Nanoose Bay BC. Incident involved approximately 50 crewmembers 1953 - Frigate HMCS Prestonian recommissioned after modernization 1954 - Destroyer HMCS Iroquois arrived Sasebo & secured alongside HMCS Cayuga. Crusader's five Chinese coolies transferred to Iroquois 1957 - Minesweeper HMCS Gaspe paid off 1958 - U-843 is raised from the Kattegat where she was sunk in April 1945 1966 - The Old Ladoga Museum Reserve was founded. It opened five years later 1980 - USS Passumpsic rescues 28 Vietnamese refugees 1984 - Destroyer HMCS Nipigon completed life extension refit Lauzon PQ 1990 - The President of the United States authorized the "call up" of members of the Selected Reserve to active duty in support of Operation Desert SHIELD, or by filling critical military support vacancies in the United States or elsewhere. USS SARATOGA Carrier Battle Group transits Suez Canal en route Red Sea 1994 - Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole 1997 - Training ship (ex minesweeper) HMCS Thunder paid off 2003 - Submarine HMS Splendid paid off at Devonport 2004 - Frigate KD Rahmat, which served 32 years as a naval warship and two years as a static training vessel, presented to Perak as a floating museum 2005 - South Korea and Japan will hold a joint naval exercise next week aimed at improving their combined capability of salvaging wrecked ships. The six-day Search and Rescue Exercise, which began today and was be held in the waters between the two neighbors. South Korea will deploy two destroyers and one anti-submarine Lynx helicopter to the training, while Japan will field two destroyers, one support vessel and two patrol helicopters. The biennial training, the fourth of its kind, was launched in 1999, it said 2005 - Quintana Maritime Limited announced that it has taken delivery of another Panamax vessel, Linda Leah, with a carrying capacity of 73,390 deadweight tons (dwt). Linda Leah will operate under a three-year time charter at a net daily rate of USD23,750 with Fratelli D' Amato, a major Italian charterer and shipowner 2005 - Offshore Logistics, Inc. announced today that it has moved its corporate headquarters to Houston, Texas from Lafayette, Louisiana 2005 - A Coast Guard rescue crew from Station Kings Point responded to a tow boat collision resulting in two boaters being injured near the Throgs Neck Bridge around 1600. A 14-foot pleasure craft with one male and one female onboard collided with 24-foot pleasure craft Music Man with one person onboard. The male boater on the 14-foot boat reported head and backs injuries and the female sustained injuries to her wrist and arm. The New York City Police Department Harbor Unit transported both to Schuyler Hospital in Montour Falls NY. The Coast Guard rescue crew responded to the incident along with the New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department Harbor Unit. The cause of the incident is under investigation 2005 - Holyhead Coastguard have just located a missing 12 year old girl who was last seen at Llanddwyn Island, Newborough, Anglesey. The girl had been playing in the water, but was reported as missing to the lifeguard on the beach at 1545. She has been winched from the water, half a mile south of Llanddwyn Island and is being airlifted to Bangor Hospital 2005 - The Ocean Conservancy is pleased to announce the extension of their partnership with The Coca-Cola Company for the 10th consecutive year. As lead sponsors of the 20th Anniversary International Coastal Cleanup, to be held on September 17, 2005, The Coca-Cola Company will help draw attention to the worldwide marine debris problem and promote litter prevention. From modest beginnings, the International Coastal Cleanup has grown into a major global event. Last year, more than 300,000 volunteers worldwide lent a hand to clean up litter and marine debris from the shores, lakes and rivers of nearly 90 nations 2005 - Portland Coastguard have suspended the search for the diver missing off Swanage since 0730. Despite an intensive eight hour search involving a Coastguard helicopter, six lifeboats, a Coastguard Rescue team, dive boats and other boats in the area, sadly nothing has been found 2005 - The number of jellyfish in the Baltic Sea has sharply increased. Residents of the Kaliningrad region say that in some places seawater resembled broth. Jellyfish usually approach the coast searching for plankton in warm windless weather 2005 - Two Norfolk-based guided missile destroyers collided off Jacksonville FL while conducting exercises. No one was injured in the incident and damage was minor, according to a Navy spokesman. The ships involved, USS McFaul and Winston S. Churchill, are Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers 2005 - The Coast Guard says it is investigating the disappearance of Olivia Newton-John's longtime boyfriend, who failed to return from an overnight fishing trip off the California coast seven weeks ago. Patrick Kim McDermott, 48, left San Pedro, 20 miles south of Los Angeles, June 30 on an overnight fishing trip. The Los Angeles Police Department said McDermott has been listed as missing. Coast Guard officer Nathan Henise told The Associated Press Monday that McDermott was last seen on the fishing vessel and that his personal items were found on the boat. Newton-John urged anyone with information on his disappearance to contact authorities. "I'm hopeful that my treasured friend is safe and well, and I'm grateful to the officials who are working so hard to find Patrick, whom I love very much," she said in a statement. "I ask anybody with information that could help to please please come forward." Gavin de Becker, a spokesman for Newton-John, said the singer was in "close and frequent contact" with McDermott's family and friends, as well as investigators. Authorities said McDermott's family became concerned when he didn't attend a July 6 event. They contacted the Coast Guard after his car was found in the marina's parking lot on July 11. McDermott, a cameraman, and Newton-John, 56, have been together for nine years. The singer appeared in the 1978 movie "Grease" opposite John Travolta 2005 - The Coast Guard pulled the certificate of inspection from the 116-foot floating restaurant the Rockmore Monday night in Salem Harbor, Mass after a number of violations were discovered. The Coast Guard received a call Saturday night from the Salem Harbormaster expressing concern over the amount of passengers aboard the Rockmore. Coast Guard Station Gloucester launched a 25-foot boat and boarded the vessel. The crew observed total passengers on board in excess of the certificated allowance for the vessel. The Coast Guard crew along the with Salem and Marblehead Harbormasters transported passengers back to Salem Saturday night until approximately 100 passengers remained aboard the Rockmore. During a follow-up boarding of the floating restaurant by the Coast Guard Monday night, the vessel was found to be lacking appropriate life jackets as well as keeping life jackets locked up while passengers were aboard making them inaccessible in case of an emergency. Several mechanical and general safety issues were identified and are in the process of being corrected. In addition to the above discrepancies, the vessel was operating without a licensed master and was unable to accurately account for passengers on board. The Rockmore's certificate of inspection was pulled for these violations. The vessel is unable to leave Salem Harbor, or carry passengers until the Coast Guard restores the certificate of inspection 2005 - HMCS Halifax left Halifax to join the Standing NATO Response Force Maritime Group One (SNMG1) in Zeebrugge. Operating in the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea and Skagerrak, Halifax will participate in a number of exercises and operations, achieving greater interoperability with our NATO allies, present an international Canadian presence, conduct Maritime Interdiction Operations training and force protection evolutions, and exercise combat training skills 2005 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a contract for $13.4 million to Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation of Seattle, Wash., to convert a former US Navy surveillance vessel to a NOAA research ship that will explore the world’s oceans. Following the transfer of the USNS Capable to NOAA last September, the Navy also transferred $18 million of its appropriated operating funds in FY 2005. The funds will be applied to the conversion contract and a separate purchase of highly specialized onboard and shoreside equipment to connect expeditions at sea in real time to teams of scientists, and to teachers and students ashore via satellite and high-speed Internet pathways. Under the contract, Todd Pacific Shipyards will develop drawings and specifications incorporating NOAA’s conversion items. This process will take about six months. Concurrently, the shipyard will overhaul all equipment on the ship that NOAA has identified for repair or upgrade. Other equipment will be opened up and inspected to determine if maintenance or repairs are needed. Once all conversion item requirements and costs are determined by the shipyard, NOAA will choose which items to authorize under the parameters of the contract. The ship will be renamed Okeanos Explorer as a result of a nationwide NOAA ship-naming contest. “Okeanos” is the ancient Greek term for ocean. The winning name was submitted by a team of students from Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Ill., and was one of nearly 400 entries received. Following conversion, the ship will support NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration on ocean expeditions to unknown and poorly known areas of the ocean. It will be equipped for ocean floor mapping, deployment of remotely operated vehicles, scientific work in onboard laboratories, and real-time transmission of images and data collected during ocean expeditions. The shipyard’s work is expected to be completed in the spring or summer of 2007. The ship’s future homeport has not been determined 2006 - USCIS Director Emilio Gonzales will preside over a naturalization ceremony onboard the USS Ronald Reagan in San Diego 2006 - A man appeared before Hull magistrates after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Officers discovered an estimated £5.4M of Class A drugs in a mobile home at King George Docks Hull 2006 - Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops. The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu. Half an hour later, troops from the ship boarded and occupied the rig and the company lost contact with the 26 crewmembers shortly afterward. 2006 - Aker Yards is to build two large construction vessels for DOFCON. Both vessels will be delivered from Aker Yards' site at Søviknes in Norway. The value of the two contracts is approximately NOK 1.175 billion 2006 - Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today announced the extension of Transport Canada's Port Divestiture Program until March 31, 2007 2006 - Japan and five Southeast Asian countries opened a three-day maritime security meeting aimed at preventing terrorism in the region. Officials from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand gathered in Tokyo for the three-day seminar 2006 - Mike Gribble, an aircraft pnuedraulic systems mechanic at the Naval Air (NAVAIR) Depot, Jacksonville recently was awarded the Artisan of the Quarter Award for the Third Quarter, FY-06, in the Industrial Components Repair and Modification Division 2006 - Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. signed a contract to buy two vessels from Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard Lt d. The anchor handling tug and supply vessels would be delivered to Greatship (India) Ltd. during the third and fourth quarters of the year to March 2008 2006 - Greece will contribute naval forces to the United Nations-backed peacekeeping effort in Lebanon but will not send ground forces to the war-torn country, the Government Council on Foreign Policy and Defense (KYSEA) confirmed 2006 - Navy Region Northwest Sailors, local politicians and business leaders gathered at the Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility (SEAFAC) near Ketchikan, Alaska, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the completion of the first of two phases of upgrades to the facility 2006 - Evergreen's latest 7,024-TEU containership in a series of 10 identical vessels being built for the shipping line in Japan was launched at a special ceremony held at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Kobe shipyard 2006 - A bomb disposal expert from Hampton Roads was killed in Iraq Tuesday, according to the Department of Defense. Chief Petty Officer Paul J. Darga, a member of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Two at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, was killed by an improvised explosive device while responding to an earlier explosion in the Al-Anbar province of Iraq 2006 - A total of 87 illegal immigrants were intercepted yesterday in two separate inspections conducted by police in Thessaloniki and on Samos. In the first case, police discovered 74 would-be migrants hidden in a secret compartment in the rear of a truck. The driver of the truck, which bore stolen license plates, evaded arrest. On Samos, police detained 13 illegal immigrants - eight Afghans and five Libyans. Meanwhile, two foreigners have received jail sentences for people smuggling, the Merchant Marine Ministry said. One received a six-year jail sentence for bringing 10 migrants to Chios and the other received a 10-year sentence for bringing nine migrants to Kos 2007 - USCGC Edisto repatriated 22 Cuban illegal immigrants to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba 2007 - HNLMS De Ruyter left Den Helder for the Lebanon to relieve Van Speijk 2007 - USCG & USN joined forces for a security exercise "Seahawk 2007" in San Diego Bay 2007 - Members of the Russian Border Guard observe a USCG SAR demonstration in Gastineau Channel. General Allen Pronichev and his delegation were given a tour of the channel by USCGC Anacapa. The Russian Border Guard and Coast Guard conducted the visit and exercise to enhance communication, learn from each other and further cooperation on joint missions such as high seas fisheries enforcement and anti smuggling operations 2007 - Two Coalition ships from Combined Task Force (CTF 150), FS Commandant Blaison and USS Arleigh Burke, provided assistance to Danish MV Danica White following its release from Somali pirates 2007 - The mangled remains of a World War II submarine were found in the Bering Sea more than six decades after disappearing with a crew of 70 off the Aleutian Island of Kiska. The discovery of the USS Grunion culminates a five-year search led by the sons of its commander, Mannert Abele, and may finally shine a light on the mysterious last moments of the vessel Copyright 2008 Shirlaw News Group ISSN 1710-6966 Today in History Archives This information is licensed to the recipient only. Images may be subject to copyright. Ask before you right-click. 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