- Dates
- 2018-02-24 – 2018-02-28
- Kind
- Emergency response
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- organization/united-states-coast-guard
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeinfrastructurepublic-servicewinter
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In late February 2018, Coast Guard cutters Mackinaw and Mobile Bay conducted icebreaking operations near Beaver Island to support an escort for a tug and fuel barge. The stated purpose was to replenish dwindling island fuel supplies; the relayed notice directed attention to safe mooring and warned residents about dangerous ice conditions.
Evidence limits
The Chamber’s forum post relays a Coast Guard operational notice, with follow-up reports placing Mobile Bay in the outer harbor and the fuel-barge escort on February 27–28. The held record does not establish the delivered quantity, the full operational log, or later fuel-inventory effects.
Sources
- The Chamber relayed a Coast Guard notice that Mackinaw and Mobile Bay would break ice near Beaver Island and escort a fuel tug and barge to replenish dwindling island supplies. Follow-up posts placed Mobile Bay in the outer harbor on February 27 and the fuel-barge escort on February 28. This is a relayed operational notice; the held forum record does not include a Coast Guard incident report or delivery quantity.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012785
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard breaks ice to escort fuel barge to Beaver Island, 2018”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-coast-guard-fuel-barge-icebreaking-2018/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce, “USCG Ice Breaking Operation,” Beaver Island Forum, February 24–28, 2018..
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