Cape May County Herald, 14 September 1983 IIIF issue link — Page 31

Herald & Lantern 14 September '83

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Coast Guard Presents Three Festival Events

The U.S. Coast Guard will present three of the events during the New Jersey Wings ’n Water Festival Sept. 17 and 18 at Stone Harbor and Cape May. On Saturday the U.S. Coast Guard cutter HORNBEAM will be open for guided public tours during open house at the Cape May Base from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 180-foot ship is commanded by Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Thome with a peacetime crew of 7 officers and 42 enlisted men. An oceangoing buoy tender built in 1944

and recommissioned in 1977, she sails out of Cape May to service more than 100 buoys and lighted structures in the Delaware Bay and off the coast of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. She is also equipped with a hull for icebreaking. The HORNBEAM is armed and performs search and rescue missions as well as law enforcement duties. Her claim to fame is her participation in the rescue of the ANDREA DORIA survivors in 1971 off of .Cape Cod. In 1980, she received another commen-

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dation for rescue of the MICHELLE F, an oil barge grounded off of Brigantine, N.J. At 2 p.m., an Air and Sea Rescue Demonstration will be enacted in the water opposite 96th St. in Stone Harbor. A helicopter will fly from the area to the rescue point. Music of the Sea will be performed along with favorites by the U.S. Coast Guard Bank in concert at 95th St. and the beach beginning 3 p.m. Sat. Coast Guard Commander Ed McGuire is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wetlands Institute and has arranged the three activities as a part of the annual festival being held in Cape May and Cumberland Counties.

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