United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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■TATIONS ABOARD lf.5 FOOT PATROL BOAT 11 III! Ml 11.111 II I i htships, hulii house , and thousand! I aids i navi- gation which an ■ .t i • 1 1 1 1 1 maintained bj the Coast Guard in | .!■ • i havi In .ii removed u hi ni vi i I In J could be ..I ii-i to i In i in it i . I i nli i -In 1 1- .in now used as net tenders I.. - - 1 1 ■ | ■ l« in. m those i the Navy, while the light) m i. ndi i- now in. nk minefields and laj submarine nets. i in • it i- ini| ible i blockade thi German - h I - in H hi. - bj in i- ai i .•-- i In entire English i hannel and I in Ids ft ..!■■ Scotland to Norway, .i- «.i- doni in thi l.i -i .ii . tin protection I the rhannels leading into oui porta has assumed greatei importance I In . .i-. with » In. 1 1 .i torpedo can be sent Ii varies inverse!) .i- the ■qui i ll ipeed: it follows, then ton . that ■ -ln|i | • ' Ini; slow!) ii | . .i right I waj i- easj mi ii foi LOAOINO AMMUNITION DRUMS

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PILOTS READY! ' lien the six hundred mile chastity belt was thrown around the Western Hemisphere, the Coast Guard Air Service joined the Neutrality Patrol to enforce the executive order. In war paint the planes logged thousands of miles searching out the violators of American neutrality. Ml officers of the Coast Guard Air Service are Pensacola- trained, so they have the Navj pilot ' s grasp of naval aerial tac- tics and the ability to handle their planes under all condition-. Vi ell accustomed to unsettled and adverse flying weather over the Atlantic, the Coast Guard aviators were easily molded into an efficient striking force against the submarine menace. This intimate knowledge of the area in which operations are carried out has made the Coast Guard flyer a valuable fighter in the crucial battle of the shipping lanes. Up and down the seaboard the sight of the vertical tail stripes of Coast Guard planes have shown the men on the ships that the Coast Guard is still on the job. The enemy also has discovered that the Coast Guard is still on the job the score of torpedoed ships has decreased to practically nothing, while the toll of lost and missing submarines has mounted steadily. The teamwork between the individual ships of the convoys and the efficiency of the escorts have caused ibis major victory over the submarine menace. The greater speed and increased range of the patrol planes have thrown the fear of God into the hearts of U-boat commanders. The sights of torpedoed tankers burning on the beaches along the Eastern seaboard is a thing of the past: the days of good hunting along the Atlantic Coast are over. ABOVE THE CLOUDS

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a submarine— if it can get close enough. The net lender sees that any submarine that has crept in close to shore is barred from channels leading into the barbors. The credit for the first Nazi ship captured bj American forces goes to the Culler NORTHLAND. While serving under Navy orders she heard of a German ship fl in;: a Norwegian Bag oir the eastern coast of Greenland in 1941. Proceeding to the reported position, the NORTHLAND seized the Nazi ship and destroyed the weather stations that had been set up by the Germans; then she proceeded with her regular duties of maintaining a supply line to the cryolite mines in Greenland and observing ice condi- tions. The activities of the International lee Patrol are not made pub- lic in wartime. The need for such a patrol exists, and even though services over the watery grave of the victims of the Titanic dis- aster will not be held this year, the four month watch will go on. Men on ships like the MUSKEGAT cruise ahout that part of the Atlantic where east coast weather conditions are determined, relaying the information to the mainland so that the convoys and north Atlantic air ferries may have complete and accurate infor- mation concerning conditions over the ocean. On converted yachts and freighters . . . cutters are too valuahle to he used here . . . the men of the we ather patrol constantly sail in suhmarine-infested waters to get the meteorological data necessary for forecasting dis- turbances in the shipping lanes. Operating in secrecy in order to survive, these ships and men never receive the credit they deserve. AN EYE TO THE GAGES TEN CAYUGA CLASS CUTTERS WERE TRANSFERRED TO ENGLAND IN 1941