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USCGC Red Cedar
USCGC ''Red Cedar'' (WLM-688) is a coastal USCG seagoing buoy tender, buoy tender that was designed, built, owned, and operated by the United States Coast Guard. She was Ceremonial ship launching, launched in 1970 and homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. Her primary mission was to maintain over 400 aides to navigation in Chesapeake Bay, Tangier Sound, the Potomac River, Potomac, Rappahannock River, Rappahannock, York River (Virginia), York, and James River, James Rivers, and other nearby waterways. Her secondary missions included search and rescue, light icebreaking, law enforcement, and U.S. Coast Guard environmental protection, marine environmental protection. She was assigned to the 5th Coast Guard District. At the end of her Coast Guard career in 1999 she was transferred to the Argentine Navy, which renamed her ARA ''Ciudad'' ''de Zárate.'' She remains in active service. Construction and characteristics ''Red Cedar'' was built at the United States Coast Guard Yard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime Call Sign
Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats. All radio transmissions must be individually identified by the call sign. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. History One of the earliest applications of radiotelegraph operation, long predating broadcast radio, were marine radio stations installed aboard ships at sea. In the absence of international standards, early transmitters constructed after Guglielmo Marconi's first trans-Atlantic message in 1901 were issued arbitrary two-letter calls by radio companies, alone or later preceded by a one-letter company identifier. These mimicked an earlier railroad telegraph convention where short, two-letter identifiers served as Morse code abbreviations to denote the various individual stations on the line (for instance, AX could represent Halifax). "N" and two letters would identify U.S. Navy; "M" and two letters would be a Marconi station. On Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
