UNITED STATE Coast Guard Remembers Lives Lost in ‘Blackthorn’ Collision, Its Worst-Ever Peacetime Disaster
The UNITED STATE Coast Guard held a funeral Friday in remembrance of the 23 lives shed after the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn hit vessel as well as sank in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1980.
Tomorrow will certainly note the 37th wedding anniversary of crash.
#HappeningNow @USCG #remembers 23 staff participants shed throughout the CGC Blackthorn crash in Tampa Bay, FL, 37 years earlier. pic.twitter.com/Ulitj8ofDs
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) January 27, 2017
The USCGC Blackthorn, a 180-foot buoy tender, sank January 28, 1980 quickly after the crash with the vessel Capricorn near theSunshine Skyway Bridge The Blackthorn shed 23 of its 50 staff participants in what is taken into consideration the Coast Guard’s worst peacetime catastrophe.
A memorial engraved with the names of the staff participants that died currently stands 2 miles north of the crash website at the Blackthorn Memorial Park in Saint Petersburg, Florida, where Friday’s event was held.
The hull of Blackthorn was elevate regarding 22 days after the crash. Here’s an information clip from the day it was elevated:
