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Article: Chapter 8: the cutters.
- Article from:
- Coast Guard Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."
--Brooks Atkinson
USCGC Storis
Storis: A Danish word meaning 'large ice,' referring to old pack ice that forms in the Arctic basin and drifts southward along the east coast of Greenland.
As a Coast Guard public affairs bulletin stated at the time of the Northwest Passage Expedition, there is literally no ship like the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis. A prototype pocket icebreaker, Storis served not only in that capacity but also as a buoy tender, cargo carrier, gun boat and aircraft carrier for both seaplanes and helicopters.
Storis was designed and constructed early in the ...