On Loan To The Coast Guard
From 20 June 1951 to 14 May 1954, Koiner was on loan to the United States Coast Guard commissioned as WDE-431. She served as an ocean station vessel out of Seattle, Washington until her return to the Navy in 1954.
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Famous quotes containing the words loan, coast and/or guard:
“Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best—
God! but the interest!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Bible: New Testament, Luke 21:34.35.