NOAA and Coast Guard Join to Preserve Historic World War I Shipwreck

By Vernon Smith | NOAA on Oct 14, 2014   National  

NOAA, with assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard, will manage the historic wreck ofDiamond Shoal Lightship No. 71, the only American lightship to be sunk by enemy action during World War I. The two agencies signed a formal agreement between NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the Coast Guard’s Historian’s Office last month. Built […]