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USCGC William Tate
USCGC ''William Tate'' (WLM-560) is a Keeper-class cutter, Keeper-class Buoy tender, coastal buoy tender of the United States United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard. Launched in 1999, she is home-ported in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her primary mission is maintaining over 260 aids to navigation on the Delaware River, in Delaware Bay and in nearby waterways. Secondary missions include U.S. Coast Guard environmental protection, marine environmental protection, search and rescue, and security. She is assigned to the Fifth Coast Guard District. Construction and characteristics On 22 June 1993 the Coast Guard awarded the contract for the Keeper-class vessels to Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Marinette Marine Corporation in the form of a firm contract for the lead ship and options for thirteen more. The Coast Guard exercised options for the fifth through tenth ships, including ''William Tate'', in February of 1997. The ship was launched on 8 May 1999 into the Men ... [...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] |
