Coast Guard called to rescue freighter on St. Mary's River

NEWS RELEASE U.S. NATIONAL COAST GUARD **************************** CLEVELAND – U.S. Coast Guard cutters Biscayne Bay (bottom) and Mackinaw (top) break ice in the lower end of the rock cut in the St. Mary’s River in Michigan, December 22.

NEWS RELEASE

U.S. NATIONAL COAST GUARD

**************************** CLEVELAND – U.S. Coast Guard cutters Biscayne Bay (bottom) and Mackinaw (top) break ice in the lower end of the rock cut in the St. Mary’s River in Michigan, December 22.

The cutters were called to break ice in the area after the freighter Cedar Glen (center) became beset by ice the previous day.

Cedar Glen was beset for approximately 19 hours before the Coast Guard vessels were able to free it.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer David Rauch.)

To learn more about Coast Guard icebreaking operations in the Great Lakes, click here.

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