Dr. William T. Hogarth was named Sept. 6 as the new Assistant Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. Click here for details. Click here to see video clips like this one and the John West salmon ad.
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Cargo Expo International Read Letters Send a letter, tell us what's on your mind. Here's how . The 130-foot ship was launched in 1931 and named for a fireboat pilot who had been killed in action the year before. It served in New York Harbor until 1995, when it was decommissioned for budgetary reasons. It had fought the inferno that destroyed the ocean liner Normandie in 1942, doused the flames on a sinking munitions ship and, over the years, sprayed geysers to greet liners and celebrate the Fourth of July.