The Outer Banks, via 47 foot MLB
The Coast Guard’s 47 foot Motor Life Boat, introduced years ago, is much more advanced than the 41 and 30 foot motor life boats, is still a wild ride. (And show up on the surplus market from time to time)
The Coast Guard’s 47 foot Motor Life Boat, introduced years ago, is much more advanced than the 41 and 30 foot motor life boats, is still a wild ride. (And show up on the surplus market from time to time)
Writer/Journalist/Sportsman Robert Ruark, who grew up in coastal North Carolina, spoke of the Coast Guard in his coming-of-age classic book The Old Man and the Boy. He fished with them at Frying Pan Shoals off the coast of Wilmington, NC, and knew many of them personally. He said that one of the old surnames associated with the Coast Guard on the Outer Banks was “Midyette,” and here we see a young lady with a variant of the name, “Midgette,” pronounced the same but spelled differently.