East Coast Operations
For the next three years the salvage ship operated on the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean, devoting most of her effort to cable laying operations. Highlights of this period were assistance to Norwegian ship SS Tarrantel which had been damaged in a collision off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay in the spring of 1962; service off Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the launch of Major Gordon Cooper’s “Faith 7” Project Mercury space capsule a year later; and searching for inactive destroyer escort Fogg )DE-57), which had broken free during hurricane “Jenny” while being towed to Charleston, South Carolina, and escorting the maverick to safety at Norfolk late in October 1963.
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