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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head
"Coast Guard, Yeaton later became known as the "Father of the Coast Guard." Yeaton, friend and companion to Allan, retired in 1798 to his North Lubec…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"The Coast Guard could not get lines on the boat the first day, but they were successful at high tide the next day."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal
"… children might profit from the information and guard against making the mistakes others had made."
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"Local police offers guarded Lindbergh's plane, "Spirit of St. Louis", in which he made his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean only two months…"
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"… Service (later to become the United States Coast Guard), commissioning Hopley Yeaton as its first officer."
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the Penobscot Valley; stalwart and hardy settlers began to settle where the two rivers met."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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