Coast Guard buoy tender Mesquite changes Beaver Harbor buoys for winter, 1988

Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1988-11-09
Kind: Transportation
Where: Saint James Harbor
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: maritimeshippingtransportationpublic-servicecommunication
Within: Saint James Harbor

Summary

The Coast Guard buoy tender Mesquite visited Beaver Harbor on November 9, 1988, to switch area navigation buoys for winter.

Evidence limits

The brief notice does not identify individual buoy positions, service logs, or the tender’s full route.

Sources

Coast Guard buoy tender Mesquite report, Beaver Beacon, November 1988.
Reports the Mesquite’s November 9 visit to Beaver Harbor and surrounding waters to switch navigation buoys for winter. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, November 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eighteen-page November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the buoy report.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard buoy tender Mesquite changes Beaver Harbor buoys for winter, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-coast-guard-mesquite-buoy-changeover-1988/, accessed [date], citing Coast Guard buoy tender Mesquite report, Beaver Beacon, November 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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