Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08
WOULD LIKE TO KEEP
THE CUTTER WOODBURY.
Coast Guard Vessel in Service More
Than Half Gen.
tury.
Now 10 Be Sold, Probably to Be.
come a Commerce
Carrier.

There is something of a feeling of re-
greet among officers of the coast guard,
especially among those who have done
duty on the old cutter Woodbury., that
some excuse could not be found to keep
her in the service instead of selling her
for use a commercial vessel the
Woodbury., though over half century
old. was wonderful old ship and in the
past winter cruising season did efficient
service on the Maine coast breaking YES
sells out of icebound harbors and aiding
others in distress and in danger of de-
struction.
The Woodbury. has TO her credit many
hundred vessels aided and many lives
saved by her timely coming to the AID
of ships in. distress. but the regulations
required the sale of the old ship IN
stead of allowing her to be brought 10
Washington and anchored i'll the TIDAL
basin or elsewhere TO show the type OF
marine architecture ri half a century ago.
New Cutters Are Ready.
Within the next few days the cutters
Tallapoosa and Ossipec VIII leave Arun-
del Cove for their stations. the former
On the Gulf Of Mexico. with headquarters
at Mobile and the latter on the Maine
coast, with headquarters at Portland.
The crews are aboard the ships. that
from the old Woodbury. being on tls
Ossipce and that from the Winona on
the 'rallapoos;l. The vessels are read!
foI duty and as soon as they can GET
supplies aboard the farewell pehla n! n,
Will be hoiSted and the cutters VIII
steam To their stations
From Guantanamo, Cuba, the cutter
Itasca. with the classes of cadets aboard,
arrived at Tompkinsville August .. mere
the four cadet engineers who nave coih
ulcted their course at the Coast Guard
Academy at New London underwent
physical examination, the passing OF
which is requisite to their being COM
miSsioned officers in the coast Suaru
They all passed successfully and orders
will he issued shortly detach,nG them
from the academy and assigning thenl
to .I,,ty ON cruising cutters. The ltasca is
now at New London to clean boilers ana
receive engine repairs. and in the Iatter
part of the month she Will sail with the
recently appointed cadets aboard for a
cruise along the New England coast or
about a month before taking up studies
ashore at the New London school.
Aid Great Lakes Vessels.
In the past week the cutters Tuscarora,
Morrell and Mackinac, doing duty on
the great lakes, were called upon to give
aid to vessels in trouble and reports re-
ceived from the commanding officers of
the ships tell the stories of the good work
done.
On Lake Michigan the steamer J. H.
Wade went ashore while bound from Two
Rivers to Escanaba. Word of her plight
was sent the cutter Tuscarora at Mil
waukee and she hurried to the scene.
Aided by commercial tug the steamer
was fioated and taken into Manitowoc.
Men from the Mackinac on one of her
patrol launches found the tug Lorenzo
Dimick in trouble. A raft she was towing
had fouled the anchor chains of an
anchored steamer and there was danger
of the raft being broken up and the logs
sent adrift to menace shipping. The
launch of the Mackinac went to work on
the raft and finally worked it loose from
the anchor chain and the Dimick was able
to continue her interrupted voyage.
The Morrell aided in floating the steamer
Noronic, ashore in Lake Michigan, on
Belle Isle flats. where she had been for
several days. To float her it was neces-
sary to lighter her cargo and bunker
coal The Morrell is now sweeping Lake
Michigan in search of some trace of the
steamer City of Sheboygan, which has
been overdue for about week.
Death of Service Veteran.
The department has been advised of
the death July % of Carpenter valen-
Iihe w. Idul. retlreO, at MS nome at
Newbern, n. c. The body was escorted
to the grave by a detail from the cut
ter Pamlico and was buried with full
'honors. except that the salute of
guns was omitted at the request of the
widow. Carpenter Paul retired October
10. 1910. after thirty years of active
duty IN the revenue cutter service.
A retiring board has been ordered to
convene at Chelsea. Mass. August 10
for the purpose of examining CAPTAIN
OF Engineers Frederick E. Owens. The
board consists of Senior Capt. II. M.
Broadbent. Capt s. B. Winram, Capt, J.
u. Ballenger, Surgeon B. w Brown
and Assistant Surgeon NJ. V. Stafford.
orders for the week are as follows:
Second Lieutenant of Engineers F. %.
Fitch. to Yamacraw for temporary
duty.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers G. W
tairnes, preparatory orders to Alert
second Lieutenant of Engineers C. ].
Odend'ha1. preparatory orders to
Apache.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers F. E.
bagger, preparatory orders to Miami
Second Lieutenant Of Engineers A.
Patterson. preparatory orders to Yama-
craw.
First Lieut.. Charles Satterlee tn
Gresham for temporary duty.