U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Acacia Update

Posted on 20 October 2009 by Jim Dolbow | Comments

(AP file photo/Petoskey News-Review) The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Acacia is shown here during a July 30, 1999, change of command ceremony in Charlevoix.

Mark Brooky of The GrandHaven Tribune writes,

The retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Acacia has a new home in Manistee [Michigan].

Tom Read, who is involved in both the Manistee-based Society for the Preservation of the SS City of Milwaukee and the American Academy of Industry — which obtained the Acacia after it was decommissioned three years ago — told the Ludington Daily News that the cutter will remain in Manistee next to the Milwaukee, a National Historic Landmark docked along U.S. 31 on the northwest end of Manistee Lake.

More here.

It is great news that the Coast Guard’s fleet of historic cutters is expanding.  I look forward to visiting the Acacia in the near future.