Windwork: [[WP:AES|←]]Created page with ‘The steel-hulled United Stated Coast Guard harbor tug Swivel was one of fifteen 65-foot harbor tugs that entered service in the 1960s. Each was built to replace th…’
Swivels area of operation was mainely Penobscot Bay and extended westward to Whitehead Lighthouse, easterly to Saddleback Ledge and northward through East Penobscot Bay, Castine and up the Penobscot River to the city of Bangor, Maine. The USCCG Swivels operations throughout the year included domestic icebreaking, aids to navigation, search and rescue, marine environmental protection, maritime law enforcement and commercial fishing vessel safety.
Swivels main mission in the summer months was to maintain more than 50 fixed (non-floating) Coast Guard aids to navigation including 5 lighthouses. During the winter months the Swivel kept local harbors free of ice and spent a week in rotation with two other cutters keeping the Penobscot River open to navigation for fuel barges that transported home heating fuel, gaasoline and aviation fuel to Bangor and the surrounding communties.
The CGC Swivel received a Coast Guard unit commendation and two meritorious unit commendations for her missions, along with the Coast Guard unit commendation presented to all first coast guard district units involved with the 1994 ice season.
The CGC Swivel was decommissioned at a ceremony held at the pier in Rockland, Maine on 14 April 1995.
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(Via Wikipedia – New pages [en].)