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“Written in Blood”: Maritime disasters that shaped the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Mission
—Those familiar with Coast Guard history know that the service’s development has been shaped by the nation’s natural and man-made disasters. Many Coast Guard missions were written in blood. Nowhere is that clearer than the marine safety mission.
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The Coast Guard responds to ghostship Carroll A. Deering!
—The mystery surrounding the disappearance of schooner Carroll A. Deering’s crew of 11 or 12 men has never been solved although the Department of Justice had been called in to investigate rumors of “piracy.”