The Boats
 83-Foot Coast Guard Patrol Boats at Normandy.

Read01.jpg Read06.jpg CG37 running up channel from Poole(the base for the Resue Flotilla)to Portsmouth Naval yard--1944. ( the 83s were changed to CG1 thru CG60 for easier identification during invasion) Read02.jpg
     
Cutter at Utah Beach June6, 1944 Read09.jpg Read19.jpg
Gun crew of 83464 in battle dress off Normanday June 6, 1944. 		Cutters off Omaha Beach June 6, 1944Read10.jpg
The 83464 and 83465 off the East Coast in 1943 on anti-sub patrol. Note both the "mouse-trap" hedgehog mounts forward and depth charges on the stern. The forward mounts were removed when the boats were shipped for European work. Read08.jpgRead07.jpg
For more infomation on the 83-foot Coast Guard Patrol Boast, see 83-footer Read03.jpg
83436 on submarine patrol fall of 1943.		  

Royal Navy signal station at entrance to Poole, Dorset , harbor-- "better havethe correct asnswer or the hidden batteries would open up on you."		   'Needles' light off southern tip of Isle of Wight--this is outside of bay leading
to Portsmouth and Southhampton, Eng.


     
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