First and Foremost - US Coast Guard Auxiliary, First District ...
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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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