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SSS POINT WEBER
Cruising the San Joaquin River (CA) 2003
Here is a photo for all you 82 footer buffs. She is a Sea Scout vessel out of Stockton CA and was built by the Coast
Guard Yard in Baltimore MD specifically for the U.S. Navy in 1962!
While in Navy service she was used as a firing range vessel on the west coast (Port Hueneme?). The boat would patrol
a firing range at sea to keep boaters out of harm's way while the navy tested various weapons. After testing was complete,
the vessel would retrieve any expended weapons still floating with a "Sea Crane" mounted on her stern. While in
Sea Scout Service this crane has proven very useful with such applications as helping repair docks, retrieving debris from
the Delta waterways, helping repair other Sea Scout vessels and probably most important for launching and retrieving their
tender. I have heard that it also makes a pretty nice rope swing during swim call!
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Near the Stockton Turning Basin (CA) 2005
Another view of her underway. Looks like she might be headed for the Delta.
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SSS POINT WEBER
October 29, 1963
The above two photos were taken by the Navy while she was on board the cargo ship SS SMITH CAPER after transport from
Norfolk VA to PT Hueneme CA.
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Taken by the XO,Don Reinhart,while at Fulton Shipyard after the Sea Scouts aquired her.
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SSS POINT WEBER
September 20, 1993
With a new coat of green primer proudly painted by Don Reinhart who was part of the crew that brought her to Stockton
CA.
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| BMCM Ed Sigmund USCG (ret) Photo |
USCGC POINT WHITEHORN (82364)
1974
Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea.
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USCGC POINT WHITEHORN (82364)
1974
Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea.
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USCGC POINT WHITEHORN (82364)
At the Coast Guard Moorings, Saint Thomas
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USCGC POINT WHITEHORN (82364)
Christmas 1975
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POINT BONITA (82347)
1981
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POINT BONITA (82347)
1980
At Coast Guard Group Woods Hole, home port. Taken from the deck of the Point Turner, homeport Newport R.I. Tied up along
side of the Point Turner was the Point Jackson homeport Woods Hole.
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POINT BONITA (82347)
Point Bonita in the yards at Point Judith, MA being hauled out of the water During yard availability.
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