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Coast Guard cutter Acacia makes a Beaver Island shore-leave visit, 1989

Also April 26 1989 Acacia Beaver Island visit

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TypeEvent
Date1989-04-26
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
1989-04-26
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Occurrence
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The Coast Guard cutter Acacia returned to Beaver Island on April 26, 1989, giving crew members shore leave and offering some residents a ship tour before resuming buoy-tending work.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper visit report, not a Coast Guard log, complete crew roster, or navigation record.

Sources

  1. Reports crew shore leave, island activities, a public ship tour, and the cutter’s buoy-tending duty. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1989-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. Paired held twenty-page issue PDF.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1989-05_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard cutter Acacia makes a Beaver Island shore-leave visit, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-acacia-shore-leave-april-1989/, accessed [date], citing “Acacia,” Beaver Beacon, May 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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