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Coast Guard Cutter Waesche Suffers Fire, Arrives In Port For Inspection

Coast Guard Cutter Waesche Suffers Fire, Arrives In Port For Inspection
USCGC Waesche, the second NSC delivered to the Coast Guard, arrives in Pearl Harbor, June 25, 2014, to participate in the 24th Rim of The Pacific exercise, the largest multi-national maritime exercise in the world, which is held biennially off the coast of Hawaii. Photo: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard National Security Cutter Waesche on Sunday suffered fires aboard the ship during a deployment in support of the U.S. Navy and arrived in port in Japan on Tuesday for an inspection and potential repairs, the Coast Guard said late Tuesday night. The fires were discovered in the ship’s exhaust stack and nearby spaces after black smoke was discovered. The incident is the second major casualty for a Coast Guard ship in just over a month after the…

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