USCG Motor Lifeboat CG36503 - Newport, OR - Lifeboats and Rescue Stations on Waymarking.com

Located in Newport, Ore., the history of Station Yaquina Bay goes back more than a century. In 1896, the first U.S. Lifesaving Service station was opened at South Beach. Later in 1906, the U.S. Lifesaving Service station moved to the present site of the Yaquina Point Lighthouse. The present facilities were erected in 1944, after the first building was destroyed by fire. A modern annex with berthing, dining, haulout facilities, as well as emergency power supplies, was completed in 1983.

The station’s area of responsibility extends from Cape Perpetua to Spencer Creek, totaling 27 miles of coast. With the primary mission of search and rescue, the station responds to as many as 590 cases per year. In addition to search and rescue, another primary mission at Yaquina Bay is law enforcement, of which the station conducts about 200 cases every year.

Their supporting vessels include one of the Coast Guard’s four virtually unsinkable 52-foot vessels, which can tow vessels as large as 750 gross tons, take 30-foot seas, travel 150 nautical miles off shore, and right itself after a rollover.

Because the station is close to the Siletz River, which floods every year, the station personnel are also trained to assist the local and state police departments, local fire epartments, county search and rescue, and county marine patrol with emergency flood response when the river floods. Station Yaquina Bay also works with local law enforcement agencies to implement the D.A.R.E. program in local schools, by speaking about the Coast Guard and a life without drugs.

Latest Operational Activities: In the past year, Station Yaquina Bay chalked up over 500 search and rescue missions, involving 2,500 boaters and property valued at more than $50 million. On one night alone, they responded to as many as 30 calls. One call required a 29-hour journey 108 miles off shore.

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Name of the Lifeboat or station: USCG Motor Lifeboat CG36503 - Yaquina Bay Coast Guard Station Number of the Lifeboat: CG36503 Adress: 925 SW Naterlin Dr, Newport, Oregon United States 97365 Callsign Marifoon: Not listed

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