BOSTON — Media are invited to ride the Coast Guard’s newest 418-foot National Security Cutter, James, on its transit from Hull into Boston Harbor, Monday, August 3.
Media will embark a 87-foot Coast Guard cutter from Coast Guard Base Boston at 6:30 a.m. and meet the cutter in the vicinity of Deer Island before mooring up at Base Boston around 9:30 a.m. The captain of James and crew will be available for interviews.
James is the fifth National Security cutter (NSC) to be commissioned in the Coast Guard’s eight-ship class. The NSC is the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the Coast Guard. Each NSC is capable of operating in the most demanding open ocean environments, including the hazardous fisheries of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the vast approaches of the Southern Pacific where much of the American narcotics traffic occurs.
The cutter’s namesake of Capt. Joshua James is credited with saving more than 600 lives in the Boston Harbor area, was the Captain of Hull Life Saving Station, and is recognized as one of the most celebrated lifesavers in the world.
Space is limited, RSVP to (617) 717-9609 by 3 p.m. Friday to reserve a seat.
Coast Guard Base Boston is at 427 Commercial Street, Boston.
For more information on the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutters, visit: http://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/nsc/
Click here for a video of the Cutter James underway.