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Coast Guard Saves Sinking Fishing Vessel Near Icy Bay

By 17th District online newsroom on Oct 24, 2020 At Sea, Featured, General News, Southeast Alaska

A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew delivers a dewatering pump to a vessel in distress six miles south of Icy Bay Oct. 22, 2020. The fishing vessel crew members reported taking on water and the Jayhawk aircrew delivered a dewatering pump to the vessel to assist with flooding while crews […]

Coast Guard Tows Disabled Vessel, Crew to Yakutat

By U.S. Coast Guard 17th District Alaska on Sep 13, 2017 At Sea, General News, Southeast Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska— The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur towed the 36-foot vessel Ruby Dawn and its crew to Yakutat, Alaska, Tuesday. The crew of the Chandeleur responded after the vessel became disabled southwest of Icy Bay while transiting from Whittier to Juneau. Coast Guard Seventeenth District watchstanders received a report from a friend […]