- Date
- 2004-03-26
- Kind
- Transportation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingtransportationseasonal-lifeweathercommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On March 26, 2004, the Coast Guard cutter Acacia (406) cut a channel through Beaver Harbor’s thick ice. Fog hid the vessel until it came close to the ferry dock, where residents and schoolchildren watched the cutter make several passes.
Evidence limits
The Beacon describes the local experience and the vessel’s passage; it does not provide a Coast Guard operational log or a complete account of the route.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2004, "A Ghost Ship slices through the Ice."Describes the Coast Guard cutter Acacia, hull number 406, leaving Charlevoix at 10:00 a.m., breaking the harbor ice through fog, and being watched by island residents and schoolchildren. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the illustrated maritime report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-04_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026 · revised 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard cutter Acacia opens a channel through Beaver Harbor ice, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-acacia-coast-guard-ice-channel-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2004, "A Ghost Ship slices through the Ice." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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