The Long Blue Line: Senior Chief Richard Dixon—heavy-weather coxswain during powerful Fourth of July | NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive - GetArch
The Long Blue Line: Senior Chief Richard Dixon—heavy-weather coxswain during powerful Fourth of July | NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive - GetArch
#Sundaymorningreads - The Long Blue Line: Senior Chief Richard Dixon—heavy-weather coxswain during powerful Fourth of July
A series of powerful storms swSenior Chief Petty Officer Richard Dixon photographed in his dress blues in Oregon. (U.S. Coast Guard)ept across the Pacific Northwest on Fourth of July weekend 1980 and could have ended in disaster, but instead showed the limitless potential of human intrepidness.
On Thursday, July 3, 1980, Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Dixon, boatswain’s mate, had just started his watch at Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay, Oregon. The station is located approximately two miles from the entrance of Tillamook Bay, in Garibaldi, Oregon, and is one of only 20 Coast Guard Surf Stations.
That day, a report came in from the Fantasy Isle, a 58-foot trawler-yacht, seeking shelter from the treacherous storm conditions offshore in the Pacific. With five people aboard, the Fantasy Isle would have to pass between two stone jetties about 400 yards apart to enter the bay behind Tillamook Bar and find relief from the storm. This was no easy task as the storm produced heavy seas that broke over the shallow bar for miles.
To read the full story, visit: https://www.mycg.uscg.mil/.../the-long-blue-line-senior.../
Original source can be found here.
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