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PLEASURE CRAFT GO TO COAST GUARD!”About 400 Former ‘Good-Time’ IBoats Now On Active Patrol Worki lt;Washington, Feb. 18 (A*)—Nearly |i 400 boats formerly used as pleasure j: craft have been loaned to the coast; guard for the duratioti of the war and now are engaged actively in patrol work, the Maritime Commission reported, today.Representing a wartime contribu- j j iion of owners 5b 31 states, the*' District of Columbia and. Alaska,! these boats supplement the 23 j _ yachts given outright by their own-; \ . ers to the coast guard, navy or mar- i i • itime commission training service, j' Some or the boats loaned are palatial yachts. Others range down to■ small power boats. Some are faunt-ing big game—submarines. Mostv are serving as “eyes and ears'* of■ the coast guard along thousands of ■i miles of coastline.Owners who have donated use of!' their craft for the duration- include: j ■ . Maryland: |James F. Dechert, Royal Oak; W.j.■ F, Austin, Easton; Carl L. Ander-j !. ton, Leland Forbush, Crisfield;Edwy B. Reid, Silver Spring; Crawford O. Savage and Jack. Stevens, William Banting. Charles S. Bunting, Orlando Bunting, all of Ocean ' City; Toney ScbJoss, Baltimore; „,;ohn William Uiliston, Lawrence '■farablin and Calvin Thomas lillis-■! ton of Snow Hill. ■District of Columbia:« Albert W. Funkhouser, Henry K, '•-McHarg, Jr., Mark Lawrence, Robin ;JKood, Frank Gibson Campbell, all -of Washington, D. C.
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Cumberland Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Wed, Feb 18, 1942
Page 7
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Frederick C.
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