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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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her observation postsand conducts the North Atlantic In-ternational Ice Patrol, keeping thesea lanes open and reporting driftingbergs. Integrated into the regulatory andenforcement responsibilities of theservice are the humanitarian obliga-tions of the nation. Logically, themany jobs the Coast Guard has to doprovide the primary reasons for the establishment of its facilities. Intime of need, these can readily beutilized in performing its emergencyand assistance missions. To ACCOMPLISH all these tasks, enor-mous plant is required. As of 30June 1946, the Coast Guard main-tained a seagoing fleet of 269 cuttersand patrol craft of all sizes, includ-ing six 327-foot, one 304-foot, seven255-foot, three 240-foot, four 165-foot, and twelve 125-foot cutters;three ice-breakers; 14 miscellaneoustypes; 35 lightships; and 93 tenders.In addition, there are 166 motor life-boats and 1229 motorboats. On land there are aviation searchand rescue facilities composed of 11air stations and 226 aircraft: the
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Convoy guardian: A Coast Guard cutter on duty in the North Atlantic against the menace of Nazi submarines 2IO Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER Academy at New London, Conn., fortraining officers; training stations atGroton, Conn., and Mayport, Fla.for the training of enlisted person-nel; about 200 lifeboat stations; ashipyard at Curtis Bay, Md.; 11 re-pair bases; 47 depots; and two gen-eral and five district supply depots.Aids to navigation include over 500light stations; more than 20,000buoys; 190 radio beacons; 49 fixedLORAN (long-range navigation) sta-tions, forming eleven chains; and 25radio direction finder stations. To knit together this vast, far-flung service, the Coast Guard has acommunications network which bindsall activities and units of the serviceinto an eflicient workable peacetimeorganization; yet it is so constitutedthat in time of national emergency itis readily integrated with the commu-nications system of the Navy. The Communications Network The Lifesaving Service (a

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