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Article: Love Me Tender.(life aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter William Tate)(buoy tender)
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- March 1, 2001
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Coastal buoy tender and its crew work hard to keep vessel traffic moving
Among its more unglamorous missions, the U.S. Coast Guard is responsible for installing and maintaining aids-to-navigation, including buoys, day beacons, lights and ranges. One of the new 175' coastal buoy tenders assigned to the thankless task of keeping the channels properly marked is the Coast Guard Cutter William Tate. Based in Philadelphia (Fifth Coast Guard District), the cutter and its crew of 24 covers the area from Absecon Inlet in southern New Jersey to Ocean City, Md., including Delaware Bay and Delaware River to the head of navigation, and part of the upper Chesapeake Bay. The ...