US Coast Guard Delaware Bay Sector (4/9/2025)

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

A Granite Farms Estates field trip to the Coast Guard Station of the Delaware Bay Sector, located on the Delaware River in Philadelphia:

Coast Guard Station in Philadelphia (KSS)

Gathering for a PowerPoint presentation about
the US Coast Guard and the Delaware Bay Sector (KSS)

The logo of the Delaware Bay Sector, one of four
sectors in Coast Guard District 5/Atlantic Area (KSS)

One of the better known missions of the Coast Guard
is Safety and Rescue

Another mission of the Coast Guard is Marine Safety

A major mission of the Coast Guard is:
Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security

The Coast Guard is not under the Department of Defense, rather the Department of Homeland Security. Other missions of the Coast Guard include Aids to Navigation, Ice Operations, Drug Interdiction, Migrant Interdiction, Living Marine Resources, Marine Environmental Protection, Defense readiness, and Other Law Enforcement.

We purchased lunch in the galley

View from the dining room of the Coast Guard dock

Two coast Guard cutters at the pier; in the foreground
is USCGC Capstan, a 65' ice-breaking harbor tug

A remembrance for Prisoners of War/POWs
in a place setting where most items have
symbolic significance, such as the rose
representing their families or the upside down
wineglass indicating they cannot join us today

The Wardroom is the officers' mess, limited to the
officers for dining and socializing, and requiring
permission of the senior officer to enter or sit

Coffee mugs in the wardroom

The Chief's Mess was off limits for us; one must use
this knocker before entering the domain of the
Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard

A fourth order Fresnel Lens from the
Miah Maull Shoal Lighthouse

The code of the Coast Guard is Honor, 
Respect, Devotion to Duty; the motto
us Semper Paratus/Always Ready

Collection of Coast Guard patches