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

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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

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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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STANDING BY THE ASHCANS ( ' IMST.1L rowoi The oldest service afloal has m ' ■ • i ■ ! in i Li- 1 1 1. in - war than i lie ordinary person dreams. Mr. Average American ' s mistaken conception of I 1 .. oasl Guard ' s wartime role stems primarilj In. in tin Service ' s name and peacetimi activ- ities. W li ii you are home leav and - in. ■ i r 1 1 1 1 1 r i k i r i u I remarks in .i disparaging tone, ill. since you ' re in the ' oasl Guard you won ' t have i ' I much. I he Navj will lake care f the fighting that ' s to be done, don ' t shru shoulders apologetically and muttei something unintelligible. Brace up and give them facts 1 1 ..mi the i e I. Hi, I,,, .i.l vmII speak for itself if the cadi U will onlj bring it t. tin attention I t !■••-•- igno- i.mi c.f iln traditions I accomplishments of tl .i-i Guard. ' mi di i dn ' t n i ite the chro- nicle « f things past to prove tin point; the ac- tions I ili ' men in il x . i i. ' during this war reanimate tin memon I bygone histon