[NJARC] LAST PATROL OF THE STORIS, QUEEN OF THE COAST GUARD FLEET

[Scott Roberts]

   2007
 - 1941
_________
     66

66 years of service since keel laid, not 75. Unless
launched in 1932.

Otherwise, interesting article... interesting to note,
last active duty WWII serviceman was a Coast Guard
Admiral who retired in the 1990's- he was in his 80's
at the time! (Had started in WWII as an enlisted man,
had time out of service after the war, and came back
as an officer in the 1960s)

Scott





--- John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net>
wrote:

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> BERING SEA, Alaska - The Coast Guard Cutter Storis
> is scheduled to be 
> decommissioned in Kodiak, Alaska after over 75 years
> of service. The 
> decommissioning ceremony is tentatively scheduled to
> be held February 
> 8, 2007. The Storis crew will complete one last
> Bering Sea Patrol 
> carrying with them a chaplain, a dentist and
> conducting humanitarian 
> missions through many remote Alaskan ports including
> villages in the 
> Aleutian Islands.
> 
> Coast Guard District 17 Alaska's Public Affairs
> Office will be 
> posting information and imagery throughout this
> final patrol, which 
> is scheduled to end the morning of December 3, 2006
> with the Storis 
> returning to Kodiak.
> 
>   Storis keel was layed July 14, 1941. Built as an
> ice patrol tender, 
> she was assigned to patrol the North Atlantic during
> World War 2 in 
> 1942. The 230 foot cutter was home ported in Boston
> Massachusetts and 
> assigned to participate in the Greenland Patrols, a
> mission targeted 
> at preventing the establishment of German weather
> stations in 
> Greenland. After World War 2 Storis remained in the
> Atlantic home 
> ported in Curtis Bay, Maryland.
> 
>   On September 15, 1948 Storis was reassigned to the
> home port of 
> Juneau Alaska beginning what would be 59 years of
> service in the last 
> frontier state. Her new mission would be the Bering
> Sea Patrol, 
> delivering medical, dental and judicial services to
> isolated native 
> villages in the far reaches of the territory. Crews
> aboard the Storis 
> also assisted in establishing LORAN radio navigation
> stations, 
> providing supplies for the Defense Early Warning
> System and 
> conducting hydrographic surveys in the uncharted
> waters off the arctic.
> 
> On July 1, 1957 the Storis, accompanied by the Coast
> Guard Cutters 
> Bramble and Spar, began searching for a deep draft
> channel through 
> the Arctic Ocean. The mission was a success, and
> ended a 450 year 
> search for the Northwest Passage. Storis became the
> first U.S. 
> registered vessel to circumnavigate the North
> American continent. 
> Shortly after her return from this historic mission
> Storis was 
> reassigned to the homeport of Kodiak, Alaska.
> 
>   In 1972 Storis underwent major renovations, which
> converted her 
> from a light ice breaker to a medium endurance
> cutter. The cutter's 
> primary function changed to enforcing laws and
> treaties of the 
> domestic and foreign fisheries in the Bering Sea and
> Gulf of Alaska. 
> In 1986 the Storis power plant was replaced and
> berthing quarters 
> were expanded to include female quarters and a new
> lounge for the crew.
> 
> The Storis is now the oldest commissioned cutter in
> the Coast Guard 
> fleet. Careers have begun and ended, and lives have
> undoubtedly been 
> changed in the pursuit of her patrols and historic
> missions. Storis 
> will remain in the hearts and minds of the proud
> personnel that have 
> served upon her.
> 
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