The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-02

ture, of skeleton iron, is 1911 feet
high, Two feet higher. but mo
longer in. use,l is the old Cape
Hatteras lighthouse. IT, With ia
height Of III feet the lighthouse
at PENSACOLA, Fla, is the tallest
brick tower now in use. H.rs
THE success of the Coast
Guard port security program is
demonstrated by the fact that no
disaster or serious loss impeding
our war effort has occurred upon
any vessel or facility for which
the Coast Guard has been re-
sponsible. That has not been the
result of luck, but of hard work
and effort. During the past three
years this port protection job has
been steadily increasing with the
increase in the volume of ships
and cargo using our ports. Despite
the need for Coast Guard man.
power at sea, their port security
program has never faltered, but
has successfully kept pace despite
substantial personnel reductions.
To the officers and men of the
Coast Guard who have made this
port security record possible and
who have done so important "a
job to get the equipment of war
to our men abroad, we owe our
gratitude Hon. Schuyler Otis
Bland of Virginia, in the House of
Representatives, February, 1945.
Principal types of buoys in use
as aids to navigation are: spars,
cans, and nuns, bells, gongs, whis-
ties, lighted, and combination. The
Coast Guard maintains a total of
approximately 1900 buoys.,
THE Coast Guard, as part of
the Navy, has served in every sea
and has spearheaded invasions
from the first offensive at Quad
alcanal down through the other
Pacific and European invasions.
The service numbers its offensive
actions wherever we have carried
the fight to the enemy: North At
RIGA, Sicily, Normandy, Tulagi,
the Solomons, the Marshalls,
Guam Saipan, and the Philip
pines, where Coast Guard fri
gates were in the very forefront
of the invasion. Read Admiral
Frank j. German, chief finance
and supply officer, u. S. Coast
Guard, at ceremonies in connec-
ton with commissioning the U.
S. S. Reading, at Reading Pa, in
January, 1945. s, ~, ,n.,...
a. Up to the outbreak of World
War Il the, Coast Guard was the
only, established military service
in Alaska and throughput the
greater part of that vast region
was, the, sole representative of law
dlQ CIVILIZATION,
1T seems to me fairly clemen-
tary that any campaign for safety
must be a cooperative venture.
You cannot legislate safety into
existence. You cannot admins
ter it into existence. You cannot
inspect it into existence. Safety
proceeds from the common will
of all people concerned, and in
the maritime field it involves not
alone the governmental agency
charged with its regulation and
administration, but also the own
ers and operators of ships, the
officers who run them, individ-
ually, and the men who man
them. All of these people, l think,
appreciate the need for intelli-
gent action and cooperation with
us. Consequently, it has been our
purpose to act WITH the indus
try to insure safety, rather than
to exercise authority OVER the
industry. =. (Such cooperation)
is an absolute, and not a. variable,
necessary to the success of the
program for safety at sea."-Com-
modore H. c. Shepherd, chief of
Merchant Marine Inspection Divi-
sion, u. S. Coast Guard, in a talk
before the Greater New York
Safety Council.
When the u. S. Coast Guard
destroyer escort Leopold was hit
by a torpedo from a Nazi U-boat
while firing on another submers-
ible of the same pack, only % of
a complement of 205 officers and
men survived.