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Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.
Loss of British Tanker Mirlo Revisited: New Considerations Regarding the Vessel's Loss of the North Carolina Coast during the First World War (2017)
On 16 August, 1918, British tanker Mirlo was lost near Wimble Shoals, off the North Carolina Outer Banks. Of the vessels 52 crew, only 10 were lost as a result of one of the most dramatic rescues in US Coast Guard history. Despite the well-known story of the rescue operation, the precise cause of the tanker’s demise remains unknown, as does the vessel’s final resting place. Review of historical documents regarding the vessel’s construction and armament provide new details which shed light on the...
Portsmouth Island Life-Saving Station, Innovative Technology Reconstructing The Past (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Life-Saving Stations offered vital support and rescue operations for distressed mariners since the Life-Saving Service’s formal creation as an agency of the United States Treasury in 1878. After its construction in 1894, Portsmouth Island’s Life-Saving Station assisted mariners navigating the treacherous waters surrounding Cape Lookout and served as a focal point for the island’s...
Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (1997)
A Programmatic Agreement to ensure that historic properties are taken into account in their planning for and conduct of the emergency response under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) 40 CFR Part 300. The National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers was also a signatory on behalf of State Historic Preservation Officers to facilitate federal agency ability to develop and execute a uniform nationwide approach for considering and treating...
VAFB-1980-01a: THE FORMER U.S. COAST GUARD LIFEBOAT RESCUE STATION AND LOOKOUT TOWER, POINT ARGUELLO, CALIFORNIA (1936-1941), A PUBLIC REPORT (1980)
This document is a Section 106 report that was written for public consumption as partial mitigation to minimize the adverse effects from planned Space Shuttle operations on this historical complex located on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Department of the Air Force's Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), now space Division (SD), commissioned a detailed Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) report on the Boathouse along with this report for the public. The report...