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I was a YN3 on the RUSH during the referenced storm. LT Lundgren our OPS officer had the con and turned the ship 180 degrees on the back of a single gigantic wave. I was on the bridge for that one and when we crested and turned the ship rolled and whipped at the same time. Boot tracks on the bulkheads and vomit on the bridge wings LOL. I visited our two MSTs in the wet lab and they were both sitting in their chairs buckled to their desks watching rain and sea water slosh back and forth across the deck. Neither one greeted me. They were both pretty green. One simply pointed to fractured seams in the bulkheads both vertical and horizontal at the deck level that let what felt to me like ridiculous amounts of water inside. There were other superstructure fractures but the wet lab seemed the most obvious. Fun times.

When I was in USCG lightships were being replaced with " Texas Towers " [ offshore oil rig looking platforms ] think Coast Guard still had 16 lightships in 1966 . Returning from Guantanamo Bay Cuba to Portland , Me on cutter Coos Bay in 1965 the local lightship hull read " Portland " not Cape Elizabeth . Remember reading in the local news paper about a crew man on deck with a lawn mower ... they thought he was nuts . Turns out he was just fixing it .

Why is it that the USCGC STORIS IS NEVER mentioned in the Coast Guard’s icebreaker list! WAGB-38? She was built during the Second World War and wasn’t retired until 2007! Her homeport was Air station, Kodiak, Alaska. That was my old ship and I miss that old gal!

It's not Tawny, its TANEY !!! Stupid robot voice 😠

Thanks for sharing. I served EDSAL Class Destroyer Escort USS Brister DER 327 1964-1965. Patrols included the Trust Territories of the Pacific, Barrier Patrols on the DEW line between Midway Island and Adak, AK. then a voyage to Sydney Australia and Pago Pago American Samoa. At the end of this voyage we received orders to deploy to South Vietnam.

I was on the chase 1974 long time ago 16 months

Speaker did not mention USCGC Unimak WAVP 379.

I was on the Wachusett for her final OSN Patrol

Jesus dude learn some spelling and grammar

Served on Taney during Cadet cruise summer of 83.

i served aboard der 386 uss savage 66-67

Thank You Ken, Andrew Fitzgerald was my Father In law. He is sorely missed. I had the privilege of driving the CG36500 when the family was given a ride.

Ahoy Shipmates! I miss these Workhorses... Many a day and night... the gurgle of the MAINS at idle... Would lull me to sleep...

AHOY Shipmates! In a way... it is sad our LEGACY is ignored by our Nation. Glorious these vessels survive offshore.

not enough Ocean Station shots

Thanks Nice video. Ken M. Cutter Jarvis 1974-1976.

I was in USN Division Officer's school in Newport in 1986. I watched some of these being built in Middletown at Derecktor. Many Moons ago sadly...

I was lucky enough to serve on a 378 right out of bootcamp "USCGC Morganthau" 1991-1993. Sad to hear she was decommissioned many years ago but I guess they can't last forever huh and have to make room for a bigger and better model.

Former USCG ET here... isn't about time Someone made a Memorial Patch for the Hamilton? It's not official... but While I was in GOV ISLAND... I designed a First District Patch. No one wanted it. It was 1*... Or one ass to risk... Low and behold years later... I found a patch of it.😂

I was stationed on the Escanaba in the late 90's and early 2000's. I was still on her when 9/11 happened. Things were very different after that day.

What happened to the bio for CAPT Dorothy Stratton?

SPENT 2.5 YEARS ON CGC GALLATIN WE STOOD THE LAST OS BRAVO PATROL WINTER OF 74 WE BERTHED NEXT TO THE DALLAS GOV ISL NY

Love the Coasties....the brave men and women ❤

What??? You dont care about Black Ones? Sagebrush 1977/78.

The AI verbiage makes this a disgraceful honor to the CG

The 3 little pigs > Ute, Tamaroa and I forgot the third. The Ute was in Key West and welded to the dock. The hull was so rusted, it was ordered not to sail

The music is so loud it totally drowns out what the speaker is saying!

Acushnet was also home ported in San Diego . I was on the ship from 1965 to 1969.

Acushnet was also home ported in eureka California.

Straight to the RUSH 723 from Alameda, sailed with her 21/2 years 2 as #1 boat engineer. They actually put Admiral Merlin in my boat and expected us to stay in the water😂

My former Girl, USCGC Gallatin WHEC-721 🫡

Retired Coastie. Though I admired the Hamilton class. This newer class really looks good.

My father in law was capt. Floyd rice.he was the first skipper of the midgett#726.

Served on the Spencer, 1970, BT3 Hicks. Last duty for me, out in Jan '71. This vessel rode well, better than 378's ! Planker on the 722 @ Governors Isld on March 10,1969

I served on a 378' WHEC Cutter (Morgenthau - 722). It was NEVER as rusty as these boats. Is there no pride in the modern Guard?

WAVP. 386 USCG Cutter MacOulocb out of Boston. I sailed her for 26 montbs. 1964 to 1966

Thank Ken for your great 140' footage. I served on the Bristol Bay WTGB-102 back in the late 1980s as a Electricians Mate. You video brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks.

Stood boiler watches & maintained diesels on CG 311's during '60's , these cutters were reliable & well designed - engines & machinery on today's fast response cutters looks a little too cramped for my taste . Hope they are not an engineer's [ MK's ] nightmare .

WAVP Rockaway veteran 1962-1964 Thanks, Ken

Has anyone been aboard USCGC Acushnet?

Love the. Coasties

Loved those beautiful ships . To this day I wear a Taney ball cap. Remember relieving Bibb on Ocean Station Charlie SE of Greenland Dec ' 65 and sending her the crew's mail by high line ...

I was OIC of Coos Bay 81 and 83 and what a ride we had in the old guard, nobody ever messed with us

Missed the mighty Storis WAGB 38😢

Thanks. I served on the Wachusett's final OSN Patrol prior to her decom in 1973. Worked in the O-Lab.

I think you missed my ship, USS Brister, DER-327, which appears in a photo at about 7:29 moored inboard of DER-388, probably at Pearl Harbor. I was aboard from May 1965 to November 1967, for three WESTPAC. deployments. A similar history to many f the other DER s who were decommissioned/ sold or scrapped by about 1970.

Semper paratus

Great show, but you left out the Unimak, my old ship. I feel so bereaved… 😊

Was on Jarvis from 82-83, Sherman 96-98 then Dallas 98- 01.

Best for the last, Cape Horn!!!