Coast Guard cutter to be recommissioned
USCG 1st District Press Release
November 22, 2002
Release No: 129-02
NEW LONDON, Conn. - The U.S. Coast Guard, Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Rep. Rob Simmons will recommission the Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay Monday, Nov. 25, in a ceremony to be held at the Coast Guard Academy in New London.
Rep. Simmons, Rear Adm. Vivien Crea, Commander First Coast Guard District and Rear Adm. Robert C. Olsen, Superintendent United States Coast Guard Academy will speak at the ceremony. Senator Lieberman will provide videotaped comment.
The Morro Bay, built in 1980 by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company in Tacoma, Wash., is a 140-foot ice-breaking tug that spent 18 years of service in Yorktown, Va., as a training ship. Though decommissioned in 1998, the multi-mission cutter has recently undergone an extensive engineering and technological overhaul and its captain and crew are ready to conduct its principal missions of search and rescue, maritime homeland security and domestic ice breaking. The Morro Bay will be homeported in New London and will also be used as a training ship for cadets and officer candidates at the Coast Guard Academy and Officer Candidate School.
Rep. Rob Simmons, R-2nd District, said, "The Coast Guard does an excellent job of keeping our cold weather commerce moving. The Morro Bay has new life and will be an excellent addition to the fleet. Ice breaking provides our nation with the ability to carry out and support our national interests in the Polar Regions and to expedite the movement of maritime transportation through our domestic waters. The Coast Guard does a great job keeping our maritime transportation system open."
The recommissioning ceremony will be held Monday at 10 a.m. in Leamy Hall at the Coast Guard Academy. Media interested in attending the event should contact the First District Public Affairs office at the number above or the Coast Guard Academy public affairs office at 860-444-8270.
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