U.S. Coast Guard Service
Yakutat was loaned to the United States Coast Guard on 31 August 1948, and was commissioned as the cutter USCGC Yakutat (WAVP-380). Redesignated WHEC-380 and permanently transferred to the Coast Guard in 1966, Yakutat spent her long Coast Guard career on weather-reporting, law-enforcement, and search-and-rescue duties while on patrol in ocean stations in the North Atlantic. She also served two tours of duty (in 1967–1968 and in 1970) in the Vietnam War.
Read more about this topic: USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
Famous quotes containing the words coast, guard and/or service:
“Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coast ... and tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man’s Land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Lord Angelo is precise,
Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses
That his blood flows, or that his appetite
Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see
If power change purpose, what our seemers be.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)