Coast Guard Search and Rescue is a painting by Bill Hubbard which was uploaded on June 28th, 2011.
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Dimensions
14.000 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Coast Guard Search and Rescue
Artist
Bill Hubbard
Medium
Painting - Acrylic, Pen & Ink On Stretched Canvas
Description
COAST GUARD SEARCH & RESCUE - Always Prepared
Two veteran Coast Guard vessels round Eastern Point lighthouse and head off into the Atlantic in response to a distress call from a ship at sea in my 11X 14� Acrylic, Pen & Ink painting on Canvas honoring two very special vessel to Gloucester fishermen and pleasure boaters.
The US Coast Guard Cutter General Green W140 was a 125� Active Class patrol boat was a famous vessel. Commissioned in 1927, she first was stationed in Boston and patrolled for rum-runners and conducted Search & Rescue (SAR) missions. She was one of the first cutters assigned to the International Ice Patrol and served from 1931 to 1933. In the late 1930�s she was stationed at Woods Hole and conducted oceanographic surveys off Newfoundland. While on a SAR mission, searching for survivors of two torpedoed British freighters of Greenland; she rescued 39 survivors from the S.S.Marconi in 1941 and witnessed the Royal Navy battle with the German Battleship Bismark. From 1946 until decommissioning she in 1976 she served out of Gloucester.
The 36� self-righting Motor Lifeboat was assigned to SAR at the Dolliver Neck Coast Guard base in Gloucester from about 1937 until she was decommissioned after WW-II.
A real workhorse for inshore patrol and SAR, she participated in a number of rescues at sea out of Gloucester.
Uploaded
June 28th, 2011
