United States Coast Guard Station Woods Hole is a United States Coast Guard station located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The station is home to Sector Southeast New England.
List of Vessels Station Woods Hole serves as home port for the following:
25-foot USCG Defender Class patrol boatWikimapia page for US Coast Guard Station Woods Hole, retrieved 23 September 2010 41-foot USCG Utility Boatibid. 49-foot USCG BUSL (Stern-Loading Buoy Boat)ibid. 87-foot USCG Cutter Hammerhead (WPB-87302, Marine Protector Class Coastal Patrol Boat)USCGC Hammerhead page, retrieved 23 September 2010 110-foot USCG Cutter Monomoy (WPB-1326, Island Class patrol Boat, commissioned 19 May 1989)TeamCoastGuard.org , Flotilla 82 Adopts the USCGC Monomoy, retrieved 23 September 2010USCG Operation Iraqi Freedom information page (MS-Word doc file), retrieved 23 September 2010 110-foot USCG Cutter Sanibel (WPB-1312, Island Class patrol Boat, commissioned 1987)Coast Guard Report , Coast Guard investigates cause of boathouse fire, 14 July 2010, retrieved 23 September 2010 110-foot USCG Cutter Tybee (WPB-1330, Island Class patrol Boat, commissioned 1989, re-commissioned 17 May 2007)Coast Guard Cutter Tybee Commissioned, retrieved 23 September 2010
Notable Service USCGC Monomoy was deployed to the Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and continues to serve in that region as of September 2010. One of the crew's primary missions has been layered defense of foreign oil terminals critical to the local economy. The vessel has been forward-ported to Manama, Bahrain.TeamCoastGuard.org , Flotilla 82 Adopts the USCGC Monomoy, retrieved 23 September 2010USCG Operation Iraqi Freedom information page (MS-Word doc file), retrieved 23 September 2010 On July 22, 1999, USCGC Sanibel served as land-to-ship transport for members of the Kennedy and Bessette families for burial-at-sea services for John F. Kennedy Jr.; his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; and her sister Lauren Bessette. The cutter ferried 17 of their family members, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy, from Station Woods Hole to the destroyer , which was moored off Squibnocket Point on Martha's Vineyard, and from which the ashes of the deceased were scattered into Vineyard Sound.Kennedy, Bessettes Given Shipboard Rites, WashingtonPost.com, 23 July 1999, retrieved 23 September 2010
See also List of military installations in Massachusetts
References
External links Welcome to U.S. Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England Group Woods Hole