United States Coast Guard The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, mu ...

Station New Haven is located at 120 Woodward Avenue,

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06512. It belongs to the Long Island Sound sector of operations.

Operations

Annually the New Haven Coast Guard Station carries out about 150-200 search and rescue operations along with 200-300 boardings and searches of vessels. As well as these active services, Station New Haven gives hourly weather reports for all seafarers in their area. If required the Sound has at its disposal 500 active service members, 200 reservists and 1200 auxiliaries to call upon.

Patrol Area

Station New Haven's patrol area is predominantly around Long Island Sound, from Black Rock Harbor to Clinton Harbor on the Connecticut side. On the Long Island side it's Mattituck Inlet to 2 nautical miles east out from Mt. Sinai Harbor. At the end of 2011 the station received a new RB-M (Response Boat-Medium) Coast Guard vessel, replacing its previous vessel which had served the station since 1977.

Open House

Each year in the month of May Station New Haven hosts an open house day where members of the public are welcome to visit and see displays of equipment used, methods, and an example of a search and rescue mission when a helicopter arrives from Air Station Atlantic City in

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