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She was decommissioned after the 1971 incident. Sold into private hands, she eventually ended up under the ownership of David
Thomsen, who bought the ship for $ 35,000 with plans of turning her into a floating sawmill. The conversion never occurred and the vessel languished in Tacoma’s Foss Waterway
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Ballard Shipyard, and gradually scrapped.
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District from Boston. In addition to tending aids to navigation (ATON), the cutter also performed search and rescue (SAR), icebreaking and law enforcement (LE) duties.
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609:"Capt Reino Mattila, Obituary"
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1531:Categories
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1315:Ghana Navy
1230:Buttonwood
1180:San Andrés
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597:. Seattle.
558:References
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621:23 August
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124:Call sign
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