It’s been about a decade since a new U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary has been chartered in Alaska — but that streak was broken on Wednesday, September 11, when 14 Petersburg residents revived the community’s flotilla.
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A Petersburg seiner overturned just south of Wrangell in Anita Bay at about 10 a.m. on June 25. The crew of the Pamela Rae made it out unharmed, except for one person who sustained a minor injury.
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A Petersburg-based commercial crab boat capsized in Duncan Canal on the morning of Sunday, June 16. Both people on board survived.
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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a man stranded in the Keku Strait near Kuiu Island. The man called Petersburg’s police department after an inflatable kayak containing all of his supplies washed away.
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A U.S. Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter crashed on the night of November 13th on a remote island northwest of Petersburg. There were four crew members aboard, and all survived — though two were seriously injured. They’d flown out to the island to render aid to a crabbing boat that was taking on water. But as KFSK’s Shelby Herbert reports, the people they came to rescue became their rescuers instead.
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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed around 10:40 p.m. last night on Read Island in Farragut Bay, about 22 miles northwest of Petersburg. There were four crew members aboard, and all survived.
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A crewman on the Petersburg seining boat, Legacy, died Tuesday morning while fishing near Point Warde, just south of Wrangell Island. The cause of death is unknown.
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The U.S. Coast Guard held a change of command ceremony in Petersburg at the end of last month. Lieutenant Jak Loewenstein led the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pike on its 17-hundred-mile journey from San Francisco to Petersburg last summer. Command of the vessel transferred to Master Chief Kay Jones.
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