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Coast Guard Patrol Boat Marion prepares to set sail from Boston on a scientific expedition to waters between Labrador and Greenland, July 11, 1928. (U.S. Coast Guard file photo)
Coast Guard involved in Prohibition, wars during its history
By U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs
The Coast Guard’s history dates as far back as the first lighthouse built in America in 1716 at Little Brewster Island, Boston, Massachusetts.
Though the Navy and Marines were founded in 1775, the predecessor to today’s Coast Guard, the Revenue Service, came into being Aug. 4, 1790, when President George Washington signed the Tariff Act, a bill Congress passed that had been written and submitted by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
A lifeguard in Port Aransas found a hardhat with the last name “Daspit” on a beach. Author: WWL Staff Updated: 2:36 PM CDT May 14, 2021
PORT ARANSAS, Texas A hardhat from a missing Seacor Power crew member was reportedly recovered on the Texas Coast, KLFY reports.
U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs Officer Cory Mindenhall told the television station that a lifeguard in Port Aransas found a hardhat with the last name “Daspit” on a beach. Port Aransas is nearly 600 miles from the capsized ship.
Dylan Daspit, 30, is one of seven men still missing after the Seacor Power lift boat capsized on April 13 in stormy weather with 19 aboard. Six were rescued. Six bodies have been recovered and seven are missing and presumed dead. in severe weather off the Louisiana coast.
Missing Seacor Crewmember s Hard Hat Found 600 Miles Away From Where Boat Capsized
On 5/14/21 at 4:49 PM EDT
The hard hat of missing Seacor Power crewmember Dylan Daspit washed up and was discovered by a lifeguard on the beach along the Texas coast, confirmed U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs Officer Cory Mindenhall.
The hat washed up in Port Aransas, nearly 600 miles from the site of the Seacor Power capsizing, according to WGNO. Daspit, 30, is one of seven men still missing from the Seacor Power disaster, which occurred April 13.
The Seacor Power, a lift boat owned by Seacor Marine, capsized in April, several miles from Port Fourchon, Louisiana with 19 crewmen on board. According to KLFY, a microburst of severe weather caused the craft to capsize just after 4 p.m.