SeaWaves Today in History May 23, 2009 1541 - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves on his third voyage, with five ships and 1500 men, including Guyon, Vicomte de Beaupre; drinking water runs out on a miserable three month crossing 1701 - Capt. William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder 1819 - John Franklin 1786-1847 sails on the Prince of Wales to explore the Arctic coast from mouth of Coppermine River to Repulse Bay; with Robert Hood, George Back and Dr. John Richardson 1850 - Navy sends USS Advance and USS Rescue to attempt rescue of Sir John Franklin's expedition, lost in Arctic 1853 - Founding of the Canadian Steam Navigation Company in Montreal. To offer transatlantic service to Britain 1886 - Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374, hauling the first transcontinental passenger train, steams into the new West Coast terminal at Vancouver, which had been destroyed by fire in June 1885, and the railway would help the city grow and recover. CPR Engine 374, which brought the first passenger train into Vancouver in May of 1887 and is now on display by the Roundhouse, did not haul that train all the way from Montreal. It was actually the last in a series of locomotives used on the trip, and began its short but historic journey in Port Moody! 1902 - Submarine HMS No 4 launched 1907 - Submarine HMS C7 completed 1907 - Submarine HMS C8 completed 1908 - Great White Fleet visits Seattle 1915 - Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I 1917 - Destroyer HMS Wessex laid down 1918 - Minesweeper HMS Bagshot launched 1921 - Cruiser USS Cincinnati launched 1928 - Destroyer FS Bordelais launched 1929 - Submarine FS Argonaute launched 1931 - Submarine FS Persee launched 1932 - Submarine FS Oreade launched 1935 - Light cruiser HMS Arethusa commissioned 1935 - Submarine HMS Spearfish laid down 1938 - Destroyer HMCS Ottawa (ex-HMS Crusader) commissioned 1939 - USS Squalus sinks off Portsmouth NH with loss of 26 lives 1939 - U-43 launched 1940 - Patrol vessel HMCS Husky (ex-US Yacht Wild Duck) commissioned 1940 - Corvette HMCS Amherst laid down Saint John NB 1940 - The Allies start to evacuate Boulogne as the Germans press on to the Channel ports 1940 - All three fleet carriers are proceeding to Scapa Flow in thick fog. HMS Ark Royal in company with the destroyers HMS Brazen, Encounter & Volunteer in one force, while HMS Glorious and HMS Furious form the core of a second force. The later force arrived at 2134, 23 May, and commenced refueling 1940 - Tug HMS Flamer launched 1940 - Rescue tug HMS Assurance launched 1940 - Minesweeper HMS Bangor launched 1940 - Corvette HMS Campanula launched 1940 - Submarine USS Marlin laid down 1940 - Destroyer HMS Harvester commissioned 1940 - At 1254, the Sigurd Faulbaums was hit by two torpedoes from U-9 and sank by the stern in a few minutes. The ship was in tow of two tugs when torpedoed. The crew abandoned ship in seven lifeboats and was picked up by the tugs shortly thereafter 1940 - Destroyer FS Jaguar sunk off Dunkirk by German MTBs S-21 & S-23 1940 - Destroyer FS Orage bombed & sunk off Boulogne 1940 - For the second day in a row, U-101 in the North Atlantic encountered an enemy submarine. The latter fired torpedoes but the U-boat was able to dodge them 1940 - U-122 encountered an enemy submarine in the North Atlantic, but neither boat attacked 1940 - HMS Truant fires two torpedoes at merchantman Alster off the Breidsundet, Norway. The German merchant Alster was captured in the Vestfjord, north of Bodö, Norway on 10 April 1940 by destroyer HMS Icarus. HMS Truant was unaware of this but fortunately both torpedoes missed their target 1941 - HMCS Woodstock laid down Collingwood ON 1941 - Newfoundland Command & Newfoundland Escort Force (NEF) established. There were virtually no naval facilities in existence in St. Johns & initially, ships of the Royal Navy provided from operational support alongside. The RN auxiliary oiler Teakwood arrived on 29 May & the stores ship City of Dieppe arrived on 03 Jun. A second oiler, Clam, arrived on 9 Jun & on 14 Jun the submarine depot ship FORTH arrived. She was replaced in Sep by the destroyer depot ship Greenwich, which, despite her smaller size & greater age, was more suited to the needs of the NEF. A Great Lakes passenger steamer, known as HMCS Avalon II, was added to serve as an afloat barracks. Cmdre Leonard Warren Murray RCN arrived to assume command on 15 Jun. For a number of months his entire staff consisted of his deputy, Cdr Robert Edward Bidwell RCN (who did not arrive until Jul 41), & his flag secretary. The first escort of a convoy by the NEF was quickly undertaken on 02 Jun when HMC ships Chambly, Orillia & Collingwood put to sea to join with the 57-ship Halifax to Liverpool Convoy HX-129. This convoy, which left Halifax on 27 May, was the first to have continuous close escort all the way across the Atlantic. It arrived safely in Liverpool on 12 Jun 41 1941 - In May 1941, the enemy started dropping a new type of mine, known as 'G' type, which had no parachute and which if it did not explode on impact, buried itself deeply in the ground (twenty to thirty feet or more). On 22 May 1941, Lt Frederick Ronald Bertram Fortt, RNVR, and Lt Denis James Patrick O'Hagan RCNVR were sent to Nuneaton to deal with one of the first 'G' mines dropped on land and unexpended. It was already known that it contained a new anti-handling mechanism activated by a photo-electric cell, which would explode when exposed to daylight and it was necessary to remove the unit of the mine containing this device before the mine would be safe to handle. Instruction showed that it was necessary to work in darkness and also that the mine would probably be magnetically alive and sensitive to any magnetic influence. The Nuneaton Bomb Disposal Squad (Lt R.A. McClune) volunteered to work on the preliminary heavy excavation, up to the point of locating the mine. The mine was found at twenty-two feet and Fortt and O'Hagan freed the end from the surrounding sub-soil; then widened the bottom of the shaft sufficiently for the necessary operations to be carried out upon the magnetic unit. The soil being in the form of petrified clay, work could only be carried out with picks and shovels regardless of any effect which the vibrations would have upon the mechanism of the mine -- then very largely and unknown quantity. To add to the difficulties, those parts which had to be removed in the early and most dangerous stages of the operation were very heavy, in practice too heavy for one man alone -- this was why two officers were sent. Working in the dark, they successfully removed the magnetic unit and primer and, after further excavation, the fuse. Dealing with an unknown mine, courage of a very high order is required. The operation was brought to a successful conclusion. Fortt has been in Land Incident Section for eight months and has dealt with thirty mines. O'Hagan for ten months and has dealt with twenty-three mines 1941 - Corvette HMCS Quesnel commissioned 1941 - Destroyer HMCS Saguenay departed Greenock for St John's 1941 - Corvettes HMCS Aggasiz, Alberni, Chambly, Cobalt, Collingwood, Orillia & Wetaskiwin departed Halifax for St John's to join Newfoundland Escort Force 1941 - The Admiralty invites the governments of Canada and Newfoundland to use St. John's, Newfoundland as an advanced base for joint escort services. This will enable continuous naval escort over the whole of the north Atlantic route 1941 - Authorization of construction or acquisition of 550,000 tons of auxiliary shipping for Navy 1941 - Admiral Darlan tells why France chose collaboration freely. For "ameliorations of the consequences of defeat and of the conditions of the armistice. . . . It is necessary for her to choose between life and death. The Marshal and the Government have chosen life" 1941 - Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, second cousin of King George IV of Britain and the only man other than the king to hold rank in all three military services simultaneously, is among those thrown into the Mediterranean Sea when his destroyer, the HMS Kelly, is sunk. Mountbatten's ship was among several British cruisers, destroyers, and battleships sunk off Crete by German dive-bombers. 24 bombers alone attacked the Kelly; 130 crewmembers were killed. Mountbatten was still on the bridge of the ship when it finally flipped over; nevertheless, he managed to swim to shore and take control of the rescue operation. Sister ship HMS Kashmir was also sunk in this attack. He would ultimately accept, as senior Allied officer present, the surrender of Japanese land forces within SE Asia by General Sieshiro Itagaki. Side note - Just a day before the sinking of the Kelly, the battleship Valiant was damaged but not sunk during an equally vicious German air attack, also off Crete, which succeeded in sinking two cruisers and four destroyers. Among the crewmen of the Valiant was Lord Mountbatten's nephew, Prince Philip of Greece. Mountbatten survived the terror of war against the Axis powers, only to be killed by an Irish Republic Army bomb, planted on his boat, on August 26, 1979 1941 - Submarine USS Grampus commissioned 1941 - At 1951, Berhala was hit by one torpedo from U-38 in the engine room at the port side, killing the third engineer, the fifth engineer and the donkeyman 1st class. The port lifeboat was destroyed and immediately after the hit Chinese crewmembers cut through the ropes of the other lifeboat and rowed away in it. At 2020 a second torpedo struck the vessel and the remaining crewmembers had to jump overboard, because the ship sank within eight minutes about 250 miles off Freetown. Shortly after the sinking, the survivors were picked up by a British warship and taken to Freetown 1941 - Gunboat FS Meuliere wrecked off Ajjacio, Corsica 1941 - During heavy weather in the North Atlantic, a lookout on U-46 broke his arm 1941 - HMS Upholder torpedoes a damages the French merchant Capitaine Damiani east of Tunisia 1942 - Patrol Vessel District YP-277 scuttled to avoid capture east of Hawaii 1942 - Tankers HMCS Dundalk & Dundurn ordered 1942 - Minesweeper HMCS Port Arthur laid down Port Arthur ON 1942 - Corvette HMCS Woodstock arrived Halifax from builder Montreal PQ 1942 - Japanese submarine HIJMS I-29 launches a Yokosuka E14Y1, Navy Type 0 Small Reconnaissance Seaplane, Allied Code Name "Glen," to fly a reconnaissance mission over Sydney, Australia 1942 - Minesweeper HMCS Portage laid down 1942 - Minesweepers USS Caution & Change laid down 1942 - Minesweeper HMAS Horsham launched 1942 - Corvette FS Commandant d'Estienne d'Orves (ex-HMS Lotus) commissioned 1942 - Minesweepers USS Sentinel & Seer launched 1942 - U-333 encountered an enemy submarine in the North Atlantic, but neither boat attacked 1942 - At 0926, the unescorted Samuel Q Brown was hit by one torpedo from U-103 about 100 miles south of Cape Corrientes, Cuba. The ship had been spotted at 0139 and was missed by a spread of two torpedoes at 0402. The torpedo struck on the port side at the bulkhead between the #9 tank and the after fuel tanks and set the vessel on fire immediately. The engines were stopped and the master ordered the boats to be launched, but the eight officers, 31 crewmen and 16 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) were forced to jump overboard and swam to two lifeboats and two rafts that were cut loose. Two crewmembers were lost. The survivors were questioned by the U-boat that surfaced 20 minutes after the hit and then left the area after hitting the tanker with a coup de grâce at 1035. On 23 May, the survivors, now together in the two lifeboats, were spotted by a USN patrol plane Upham, Canal Zone. The plane took five injured men on board and brought them to a hospital at Key West, Florida. The remaining survivors were picked up the next day by USS Goff & taken to Cristobal after the hulk was scuttled by gunfire from the destroyer on 25 May 1942 - SS Watsonville sunk by U-155 at 13.12N, 61.20W 1942 - SS Zurichmoor sunk by U-432 at 39.30N, 66.00W 1942 - Steam tanker William Boyce Thompson damaged by U-558 at 04.05S, 35.58W 1942 - At 2203, the unescorted Margot was hit by one torpedo from U-588 SE of Philadelphia. After 2205, the ship was attacked with gunfire until she sunk at 0020 on 24 May in grid CB 4720. One crewmember was lost. The officers of the U-boat questioned the survivors and a bottle of rum was given to them. The master, 38 crewmembers and five gunners were picked up four days later by the Swedish merchantman Sagoland and landed at New York. 1942 - U-222 commissioned 1942 - U-425 laid down 1942 - U-267 & U-448 launched 1943 - MTB Tender USS Niagara sunk Japanese aircraft bombing near San Cristobal Island 1943 - USS New Jersey BB-62 is commissioned 1943 - Fairey Swordfish Mk. II, aircraft "B" of No. 819 Squadron in the escort aircraft carrier HMS Archer, damages the German submarine U-752 in the North Atlantic with rockets and the sub is scuttled by her crew in position 51.40N, 29.49W; 17 of the 46-man crew survive. This is the first successful sinking of a U-boat using rockets. Four crewmembers rescued by U-91 1943 - Frigate USS Reading laid down 1943 - Submarine USS Dorado launched 1944 - Aircraft of Task Group 58.6, the USS Essex, Wasp & San Jacinto attack Wake Island 1944 - USS England sinks another Japanese submarine, RO-104, Lt. Hisashi Izubuchi, involved in Operation "NA;" this is the third submarine sunk in four days. The sub is sunk 250 miles NNW of Kavieng, New Ireland Island, Bismarck Archipelago 1944 - Destroyers USS Harlan R Dickson & Hugh Purvis laid down 1944 - Destroyer escort USS Thaddeus Parker laid down 1944 - Corvette HMS Alnwick Castle launched 1944 - Frigate HMCS Loch Craggie launched 1944 - Boom defense vessel HMS Pretext launched 1944 - Submarine HMS Virulent launched 1944 - HMS Sceptre torpedoes & sinks German merchant Baldur off Castro-Urdiales, northern Spain 1944 - HMS Universal torpedoes & sinks German auxiliary gunboat SG 15 off Genua, Italy 1944 - Destroyer escort USS Rolf launched 1944 - Destroyer escort USS Tabberer commissioned 1944 - U-764 was attacked by an enemy aircraft and damaged. One crewmember wounded 1944 - U-2505 & U-3002 laid down 1944 - Coast Guard-manned Army vessel FS-387 was commissioned at Los Angeles with LT J. L. Gray, USCG, as commanding officer. She was assigned to and operated in the Southwest and Western Pacific areas during the war. 1945 - Coast Guard-manned Army vessel FS-251 was commissioned with LT Robert A. Copeland, Jr. USCGR, as first commanding officer. Boatswain Peter Butler, USCG, succeeded him 9 December 1945. On 21 June 1944, she departed 3rd Naval District for the Southwest Pacific. On 7 December 1945, she was turned over with all equipment, stores, etc. to U. S. 6th Army at Nagoya, Japan, Captain J. J. Freeman, US Army signing the receipt for the Army 1945 - Grossadmiral Karl Donitz and members of his government were taken into custody by the Allies 1945 - Minesweeper HMS Mariner commissioned 1945 - HMC MTB 748 paid off 1945 - Frigate HMCS Loch Alvie departed Kola Inlet with Convoy RA-67 1945 - Corvette HMCS Morden departed New York as escort for Convoy HX-358 1946 - Destroyer USS Richard E Kraus commissioned 1947 - Destroyer USS Keppler commissioned 1949 - Federal Republic of Germany is established 1949 - Japanese minesweeper MS 27 mined & sunk Manju Islands 1958 - President Arturo Frondizi announced that Argentine destroyers attacked an unidentified submarine. Mr. Frondizi told a special news conference at Government House that the Argentine destroyers dropped depth charges and almost immediately saw oil coming up through the water. A search was called off yesterday when the destroyers failed to find any more trace of the submarine. The four destroyers and three cruisers of the Argentine Navy were on maneuvers when the destroyers spotted the submarine periscope and also tracked the sub on radar near Bahia Cracker, a little port inside Golfo Nuevo, which is some 650 miles from Buenos Aires on the South Atlantic coast of Argentina. Mr. Frondizi entered the conference room flanked by his Foreign Minister, Carlos Florit, and other ministers. The President said oil slicks appearing on the surface after the depth charges exploded usually means a submarine is damaged 1962 - Launch of Aurora 7 (Mercury 7), piloted by LCDR Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USN, who completed 3 orbits in 4 hours, 56 minutes at an altitude up to 166.8 statute miles at 17,549 mph. He was picked up by HSS-2 helicopters from USS Intrepid. USS John R. Pierce recovered the capsule 1962 - USS Valcour provides medical care to a merchant seaman from tanker SS Manhattan in the Persian Gulf 1963 - Patrol craft HMCS Cormorant paid off 1963 - Submarine HMS Opossum launched 1967 - USS Bennington returns from Vietnam deployment 1968 - Washington State Ferry Yakima enters service 1970 - Bombings in Seattle move President Nixon to cancel nerve gas shipments through Puget Sound 1974 - Destroyer HMCS Chaudiere paid off into Category C Reserve 1978 - Submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone towed to Inverkeithing to be broken up 1980 - Destroyer HMCS Skeena completed life extension refit Canadian Vickers Montreal PQ 1982 - HMS Antelope together with Plymouth, Yarmouth and Broadsword, take up positions at the entrance to San Carlos Water. Four Argentine A4B Skyhawks are spotted by 2 Para as they crossed in to Grantham Sound. Splitting in to two pairs they concentrated their attack on HMS Antelope with one managing to release a bomb before colliding with Antelopes main mast, another released two 1000-lb bombs, but neither exploded. When work began to defuse the first bomb it exploded killing one man and wounding another. The ensuing fire spread quickly and the crew abandoned ship before it eventually sunk with a loss of two lives on 24 May 1992 - President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees 1998 - USS Missouri departs Bremerton under tow for Pearl Harbor via Astoria OR 2003 - HMCS Fredericton rescued two workers from a burning ship in the Persian Gulf 2005 - Trailer Bridge, Inc. announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the Company two patents related to the method of loading vehicles in and unloading vehicles from Trailer Bridge's previously patented Vehicle Transport Module(R) (VTM(R)) container. Trailer Bridge was informed by the USPTO that Patent No. 6,890,136 was issued on May 10, 2005 and Patent No. 6,893,205 was awarded on May 17, 2005 to Trailer Bridge as assignee. These represent the third and fourth patents the Company has received related to its innovative Vehicle Transport Module (VTM) container. Previously, Patent Nos. 6,416,264 and 6,503,034 were issued in July 2002 and January 2003, respectively. The inventors of all patents are Ralph W. Heim, J. Edward Morley and P.W. Shahani. Mr. Heim is President and Chief Operating Officer of Trailer Bridge and Mr. Morley is Vice President of Operations. Mr. Shahani is a consulting engineer who has provided services to the Company. These most recent patents relate to methods of loading the VTM container and loading and unloading vehicles while the VTM container is attached to a chassis. Trailer Bridge believes that the overall VTM container system combines the best features of roll-on, roll-off and lift-on, lift-off. This system has been successfully used in transporting over 30,000 vehicles between US mainland ports and Puerto Rico. One of the Company's Triplestack Box Carrier(R) vessels, when loaded with a full complement of VTM containers, becomes a small car carrier capable of moving more than 1,000 vehicles. The capabilities of these flexible units continue to generate interest and inquiries for use in various marine applications. Trailer Bridge believes the range of potential uses for the VTM container also extends beyond the ocean transportation sector and is continuing to explore various further applications. Trailer Bridge presently has another patent application pending before the USPTO related to the methods involved in loading, unloading and moving freight on its innovative Triplestack Box Carrier(R) vessels 2005 - The Coast Guard’s newest Marine Protector Class Coastal Patrol Boat arrived at its homeport of Port Angeles, Wash., today after a 45-day transit from Lockport, La. The 87-foot patrol boat Swordfish left Bollinger Shipyard in Lockport on April 8, 2005 and traveled more than 6,000 miles. The transit took the Swordfish through the Panama Canal and up the West Coast of North America. Swordfish will be the fifth 87-foot Coastal Patrol Boat to be placed in service in the Puget Sound region, Other patrol boats already in service include Sea Lion, homeported at Station Bellingham, Wash., Osprey stationed in Port Townsend, Wash., and Wahoo and Adelie stationed in Port Angeles. The Swordfish is an innovative, multi-missioned class of vessel capable of performing search & rescue, law enforcement, fishery patrols, drug interdiction, and migrant interdiction duties up to 200 miles offshore. The coastal patrol boat carries a 10-man crew and is capable of achieving a maximum continuous speed of 25 knots. The average patrol speed is 10 knots. The most unique feature of the Cutter's design is the Rigid Inflatable Boat launch and recovery system. The system includes a fixed ramp that is incorporated into the stern of the coastal patrol boat which allows the support vessel to drive onto the coastal patrol boat while the larger vessel is moving. This feature significantly improves the safety of the Rigid Inflatable Boat launch and recovery evolution 2005 - At 1415 RFA Black Rover picked up two fishermen who had been adrift in a liferaft for five hours. The fishing vessel Bounty TH 181 is an under 10 meter fishing vessel registered in Teignmouth, South Devon. The fishing vessel sank in a position approximately, 12 miles south east of Berry Head, after she became snagged on an underwater obstruction. The liferaft floated free and the men were able to get themselves into the liferaft where they spent 5 hours adrift before spotting a ship and using their last distress signal to attract attention. RFA Black Rover saw the distress signal and diverted to the liferaft's position. They were then able to rescue the men from the liferaft and gave them warm dry clothing. The men are being transported to Portland where they will be met by their relatives. The vessel had recently undergone an inspection by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency Surveyor based in Brixham 2005 - Frigate HMAS Newcastle departed Sydney to replace HMAS Darwin in the Persian Gulf 2005 - After nearly two-years at Bremerhaven SS Norway left under tow of tug De Da for Port Klang via the Cape of Good Hope. The tug and tow should arrive in Port Klang in approximately 70 days 2006 - Robert J. Bauerle, CFO for American Bureau of Shipping, died after slamming a company Porsche into the back of a logging truck on Texas 105 about 45 miles north of Houston. Bauerle, 59, who had not been heard from since phoning his office on May 8 to say that he was enroute to work, died at the scene. His whereabouts prior to his death are still a mystery, authorities said 2006 - The US Dept of Transportation in cooperation with Federal, State, local, and Canadian partners will host PACIFIC PERIL 06 from 23-25 May 2006 at Camp Rilea on the NW Oregon Coast. The three-day event will consist of a "training day" presenting earthquake and tsunami hazards and response plans, a full day Command Post Exercise (CPX) and a final table top review. The exercise play postulates a catastrophic seismic event that triggers a massive tsunami that devastates Pacific coastal communities from British Columbia to northern California. The Government of Canada, including the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver, are also engaged in exercise play 2006 - The United States and Mexican Navy are holding a bi-national oil spill response exercise in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico May 23-24 2006 - Two Vietnamese rescue ships from Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center Region Two based in central Da Nang brought ashore 33 exhausted local fishermen who had struggled for a week in Typhoon Chanchu. Another 15 dead bodies were also returned. Both dead and alive fishermen were taken to Da Nang General Hospital 2006 - At 0700 Solent Coastguard received a call from ferry Cenwulf reporting a possible man overboard. A non fare paying passenger was spotted on the ferry at around 0630 and was not seen to disembark. Solent Coastguard initiated a significant sea and land search using the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter India Juliet, the Needles and Lymington Coastguard Rescue Teams and the RNLI Lifeboats from Yarmouth and Lymington. Following an Urgent radio broadcast to shipping in the area, a local Fishing vessel and a number of yachts also joined the search. Assisted by the latest search planning technology (Search And Rescue Information System - SARIS) Solent Coastguard coordinated a comprehensive search using a significant number of assets. In support of the Coastguard led operation, Hampshire Police followed up inquires onboard the Ferry and at 9.30 am discovered the missing man asleep in a vehicle waiting to return to the main land having completed a delivery on the Isle of Wight 2006 - UN Food and Agriculture Organization launched a new initiative to gather and maintain standardized information on the world's fish stock 2006 - Vice President Dick Cheney addressed about 4,000 sailors and Marines aboard USS Bonhomme Richard before attending a luncheon for 50th Congressional District GOP candidate Brian Bilbray 2006 - A life raft dropped out the back of a Coast Guard C-130 lands next to the wreckage of a DeHavilland Beaver float plane operated by Andrew Airways that crashed with six people on board in Hallo Bay. Air crews from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak rescued all six people. The Coast Guard rescue coordination center in Juneau received a call at 1312 regarding the downed aircraft, which was enroute from Hallo Bay to Kodiak A Coast Guard C-130 arrived on scene and immediately deployed several life rafts. Two Coast Guard C-130 aircraft and two helicopters, an HH-60 Jayhawk and an HH-65 Dolphin from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak responded to the crash. Both C-130 aircrews and the Dolphin aircrew were diverted from training missions near the area of the crash which saved precious time. The Jayhawk crew rescued four people in the water, and the Dolphin crew rescued the remaining two. All passengers from the Beaver were transported to Kodiak where they were treated for hypothermia and minor injuries 2006 - USCG Sector San Diego Air Station responded to a vessel in distress 90 nautical miles southwest of San Diego at 1911. The call of distress came from the F/V Legend, a 75-foot sport fishing vessel with 38 people onboard. The crew of the F/V Legend reported that the ship was taking on water with weather conditions of 15-foot to 18-foot seas and winds of up to 25 knots 2006 - The Cambodian flagged general cargo ship Piligrim 2, 1551 GT, was detained at Shoreham. The Port State Control Officer (PSCO) from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency found twelve deficiencies, two of which were major non conformities under the ISM Code 2006 - At about 0130 Aberdeen Coastguard were alerted by the crew of the fishing vessel 'Lynden II' that their skipper was in great pain and needed medical attention urgently. When the urgent call was made to the primary marine emergency service the vessel was about 108 miles from landfall. The skipper was complaining of pains in his side. The radio call from the vessel was patched through to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and with the Coastguard monitoring the call, a duty doctor talked through the symptoms of the 49 year old skipper with the rest of the 5 man crew to try and evaluate the skippers present condition and sever 2007 - North Atlantic Council (NAC) chaired by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Military Committee chaired by General Ray Henault, accompanied by the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General John Craddock, embarked on NATO's SNMG2 vessels to witness the operational capabilities of the naval force during the NAC-MC Sea Day 2007 - Saudi Arabia and Egypt have launched a crackdown on Red Sea ferries that fail to comply with international safety standards 2007 - The male astronaut involved in the Lisa Nowak love triangle is being shipped back to the US Navy. Shuttle pilot William Oefelein was told that his detail to NASA will end on June 1 2007 - Capt. Matthew J. McCloskey assumed command of USS Boxer from Capt. Bruce W. Nichols during a change of command ceremony held on the ship’s flight deck 2007 - Multi-purpose amphibious ship USS Peleliu departed San Diego, kicking off the humanitarian mission Pacific Partnership 2007 - Shipyard workers at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations laid the keel for the future USS San Diego during a ceremony at the Pascagoula shipyard 2007 - The EADS CASA-made CN-235s, purchased under the USCG’s Deepwater modernization program, received their numeric designation, HC-144A, from the Air Force in 2006; the name “Ocean Sentry” was approved 2008 - Submarine ITS Salvatore Todaro departed Taranto for six months in US East Coast waters which will include taking part in Columbus Day festivities in New York City in October 2008 - Canadian survey launch "Le pêcheur 21" turned over to Crown Assets for disposal 2008 - Russian Pacific flagship missile cruiser Varyag went out to sea after two yeas of repair 2008 - Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. 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