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USCGC Juniper

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Integrated Ship Control System has an Electronic Charting Display and Information System (ECDIS) which enables fixing her position to within five meters every second. Her Dynamic Positioning System (DPS) uses this positioning information, the ship's controllable-pitch propeller, and the stern and
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Machinery Plant Control and Monitoring System (MPCMS) has over 1000 sensors throughout the ship. This system makes it possible for one person in the engine room control center to monitor the ship’s plant while underway.
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is much larger at 225 feet and 2000 tons, and was the first cutter to fully leverage and implement many technological advances such as electronic charting, position keeping, and remote engineering monitoring and control.
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and her crew are adept at handling various missions such as aids to navigation, law enforcement, homeland security, ice breaking, environmental pollution response, and search and rescue.
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and her crew to work more buoys in less time, more efficiently and safely, and in tougher environmental conditions than her predecessors.
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was of solid construction and served as a civilian cargo vessel out of Norfolk up until 1979.
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until its decommissioning in 1932. While comparatively small at 95 feet long and 125 tons,
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began receiving her midlife maintenance availability (MMA) upgrades and overhauls at the
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The advances made from the 180 foot vintage seagoing buoytenders to the current
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in Maryland on September 25, 2019. After completion of this maintenance work,
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is also designed to skim and recover oil in the event of an oil spill.
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bow thrusters to keep the ship on station without any human input.
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assisted in the recovery operations following the crashes of
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The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World
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In the late 1930s, the USLHS constructed the second
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USCGC Juniper (WLB-201)

Statue of Liberty
Honolulu, Hawaii
IMO number
9155535
MMSI number
366952000
Callsign
Caterpillar
knots
Mk 38
U.S. Coast Guard
seagoing buoy tenders
U.S. Lighthouse Service
Baltimore, Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
St. Petersburg, Florida

TWA Flight 800
TWA Flight 800
Egypt Air 990
New York City
September 11, 2001 attacks
reef
New Jersey
Newport, Rhode Island
Coast Guard Yard
Honolulu
Walnut

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