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By Ed Duffy, SO-PB Div 20<br />

CGC Penobscot Bay broke off operations to pick up reporters waiting at<br />

the Rhinecliff Docks, Rhinecliff, NY. After taking on several passengers,<br />

the P’Bay proceeded south on the Hudson River to the Esopus Isl<strong>and</strong> to<br />

break up the clogged ice that was preventing commercial traffic from going<br />

northbound.<br />

LT. S. Marshall Griffin, <strong>US</strong>CG, Comm<strong>and</strong>ing Officer of the CGC Penobscot<br />

Bay gives a briefing to those assembled before getting underway.<br />

LT. JG Zachary C. Bender escorted Curt Fleck, DCDR-20 <strong>and</strong> Dorothy<br />

Crane, reporter from About Town aboard the CGC Penobscot Bay. Ms.<br />

Crane departs the CGC Penobscot Bay after being aboard during icebreaking<br />

operations on the Hudson River.<br />

The CGC Wire is heading south on the Hudson River returning from ice<br />

operation in <strong>and</strong> around the Port of Albany, NY.The temperatures dropped<br />

considerably forcing continuous ice-breaking operations through the night.<br />

CGC Penobscot Bay breaking ice ahead of barge traffic just north of the<br />

Rhinecliff Bridge in Kingston, NY.<br />

Lieutenant Dan Everette, <strong>US</strong>CG, Comm<strong>and</strong>ing Officer of the CGC<br />

Sturgeon Bay greets George Wirthman, 20-4, who escorted Roschelle<br />

Riservato from the Shawangunk Journal aboard the CGC Sturgeon Bay<br />

in Kingston, NY.<br />

Mr. Curtis Schmidt, editor of the Southern Dutchess News, was escorted<br />

by Alan Kordzikowski, 20-4, aboard CGC Sturgeon Bay.<br />

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