Untold History- The USCGC Acacia (Coast Guard Ghost Ship Documentary)

[@DairyAirGunners]

Served on the Conifer EN2 67-69 out of Portsmouth, Va.

[@rp1645]

Thank you for the great TOUR on board this vessel with History. I personally Love those massive BOOM set up for deck lifts. The system of winches, on each side, to swing the massive BOOM. I just Love the old school rigging of wire (Rope) to me it is a real winch boom system.

[@itstherecit17]

I served on another of the 180's, the Buttonwood WLB306 in Hawaii in 68/69. This video reinforces the dreams I still have of my time aboard and the trips out onto the distant Pacific, working the buoys in Pearl Harbor and all of the Hawaiian Islands.

[@stevenjanicelli6593]

Very good video. I served in the Coast Guard from 1973 to 1993. I was assigned to USCG Base Astoria in early 80's and we maintained buoys for CGC Iris and the Aids to Navigation Team there. Lots of great memories on the Columbia river. I'm moving from California to either Wisconsin or northern Missouri this summer. I'd like to volunteer to paint, clean, or other jobs that require labor on this ship. Again good job on the video, brought back good memories from a great time in my life. Thanks

[@81brassglass79]

I was part of the team that got it up and running after it was decommissioned. 🤘🍀 It was my pleasure. I was only in highschool at the time and my friend asked me if I wanted to come to Chicago to work on a boat because I'm a mechanic Had no idea we were going to a ship! 😂 I helped fix a bunch of copper pipes that had started leaking from freezing and getting all the engines up and running as well as spinning up the prop 🤘

[@themodernfrontiersmen]

That is really cool!

[@mr.bumble8400]

I served 1980 to 1984. So much scraping and painting and shooting angles….that was access to the bow thruster down that forward hatch…

[@markleach116]

My father served as the corpsman on USCGC Cowslip (WLB-277) in the 1950s. Loved this video as I never had a chance to tour a 180 footer!

[@hrm350694]

Wow, very impressive tour. Spent 28 yrs. active duty in the CG. No great lakes ship.

[@kipperwhite2976]

As a BM2 Coastie -TY 4ur dedication 2 a Fine Cutter ! SEmper Paratus 2 Uall & GBY

[@michaelchamberlain9983]

I was stationed on the Katmai Bay WTGB101, small boat station, Charlevoix, Michigan. Also The The Mackinaw groups, Sault Ste. Marie, Sanibel Houghton Hancock, Michigan Neay Bay

[@connorkilgour3374]

I volunteer of a similar museum ship on the Canadian side. CCGS Alexander Henry. Coast guard ships are absolutely fascinating and I'm going to come visit once covid lightens up and the boarders open again.

[@themodernfrontiersmen]

They are! This one is special because my dad (Geoff Dockum) served on it! -Caleb

[@connorkilgour3374]

@@themodernfrontiersmen That's amazing! great when there's a family connection. I've met a lot of people who used to serve on my ship. They always get emotional. If you are ever in Canada around the Thunder Bay area let me know and I'll arrange a tour

[@TS-mq1fj]

USCGC Planetree WLB 307 (1988-1990) Ketchikan, AK. Ice Breaking Buoy Tenders were workhorses of the Coast Guard, Maintenance, ATON, SAR, LE and Environmental Recovery missions(Exxon Valdez) as well as recovering Soviet Spy Buoys and delivering humanitarian supplies to remote locations. Each had their own personality, moniker and customs that forever tied those who served on them. THANK YOU!

[@tc1uscg65]

No mention about 3-year SHORT homeport for the Acacia was in Sturgeon Bay WI, which had relieved the Mesquite (we know what happened to her). When the Mobile Bay showed up in 79, took the place of the Acacia where she ended up in Grand Haven MI. But took over in Charlevoix after the Mesquite sank in Lake Superior. The CG moves ships around from time to time (The 140s have been in the same ports they were assigned to upon commissioning FWIW). But I recall the Mariposa, for example, use to be out of Detroit ended up on the West Coast, Seattle. She was in Detroit from 1974-90.

[@a914freak]

Interesting to see the differences between a Sea Going tender and a Lake tender. The QM room was the RM/Communications room on the CGC Sassafras WLB 401

[@douglasknox390]

Served on the Sagebrush WLB 399, 70-72. Homeport San Juan PR. I was an ET3 and did all communications. It's great to see an old cutter preserved.

[@scootertrash911]

I was on the Sagebrush in 69 and 70 CS3. Are you from New York?

[@mikemcmahon7417]

Great tour! I was an HS2 on the Bittersweet and this brings back lots of memories. It's obvious he was aboard the Acacia before the invent of DPQS or else he would have had a better understanding of what was in some of the compartments. Overall, excellent video.

[@Maynard283]

My old boat. Was on decommissioning crew

[@Acaciavet]

I sailed her 1967-1971 Out of Port Huron Mich

[@davidbisbee929]

I served on the USCGC Cactus WLB 270 in 1965-66. Promoted to 3rd Class Bos'n Mate during that time. Lots of memories.

[@BartholomewSmutz]

I served on this boat (yes we called it a boat) as a Fireman in 1989 or 90 in Charlevoix, Michigan. For those who don't know a Fireman works in the engine room. While I was there this boat was mostly a showpiece that was primarily there just to show the flag of the Coast Guard. I remember we went to Chicago once for some holiday, maybe Veterans Day and a few civilians were invited onboard to take a short cruise. Another time we attended the Coast Guard festival in Grand Haven Michigan. I had previously served in the Army and must admit I never really got used to serving on a ship and pulling so much duty along with being in such close quarters with other people 24/7. I hated it to be honest.

[@nelliesfarm8473]

Im 50 years old and remember as a kid, we would go camping in grand haven, Michigan.,there was an awesome pier there I still have pics of today.,

[@scootertrash911]

My bunk mate had to put up with constant farting, sometimes clearing the whole birthing area.

[@tc1uscg65]

Bilge rats. ;-) We in Radio never went to the engine room without a block of cheese (and the daily news hot off the teletype). I was offered 8 ships as my last prior to retirement units. 2 were 180's in Alaska. One was due for decom. Lets just say I chose to go to Florida.

[@michaelchamberlain9983]

When I was in the Coast Guard, I become-a decky, then a machinery technician and advanced life support paramedic and removed an appendix at sea.

[@j.d.peppmeier9041]

Very interesting !! Bet he didn't wear shorty-pants and flipflops when he was a member of the crew !

[@yowtrucking3914]

I served on the USCGC Saliva wmlb 400 out of mobile Alabama from 83-84 she was transfer to the US NAVY where she still serving as a training ship.

[@willyywolf]

Very depressing to see a Cutter so empty. Great documentary though.

[@OffRoadRunner94]

PKP extinguishers are primarily used on class alfa fires. AFFF is the go to for bravo fires. The acacia was the end of an era

[@nelliesfarm8473]

Im 50 years old and can remember while growing up on lake Erie ,,the coast guard pulling bodies behind them occasionally

[@daetslovactmandcarry6999]

Holy fuck me… I served on _ACACIA_ 1999-2ØØ1. (Pretty sure her namesake was sunk during WWI, but at least you know of her namesake- I didn’t while I was aboard.) Pretty sure (less accidents prevented) she saved more lives during her Operation Restore Order (accidental) deployment than the rest of her career, BUT we had a strange little SAR op- While tied up in home port, a certain Seaman (don’t want to dox him here) went on deck to get a cigarette. While he was there, he heard a voice crying out for help in the marina. The station just happened to be getting underway for night training at that moment, so he flagged down their boat, indicated (somehow, I wasn’t there) that someone was in distress, and they swooped over and grabbed him. (He’d been performing some sort of repairs on his boat, lost his footing and falling into the water barely holding on for “quite a while” by his version of events.) Thank you for this.

[@daetslovactmandcarry6999]

6:30 2 Hold. This is where we stowed different assorted equipment and supplies for tending buoys, mostly solar panels to recharge the batteries (along with a weight lifting set that nobody ever used that I know of). Go down the ladder and you'll see the door- Behind that was the black water tank (where the toilets drain to). Fun (¿?) fact, the showers and sinks do NOT drain directly to the black water tank, but rather to the grey water tank, then grey water would be recycled to the toilets (no that doesn't make them self-cleaning 🤣🤣). When grey tank would become too full, some of it would be drained off directly to black tank (how much I don't know, that was a snipe thing). Several compartments aboard changed (rather dramatically) after I left, the biggest change was that the "Computer room" next to the Wardroom was not a computer space- I recall there being a sink back there. (😬😲) Funny stories- I found XO's safe locked OPEN and clearly empty one day, and not knowing what was going on I called the quarterdeck, had them pipe him. He came up, heard my "report" ("Sir, I found your safe open"). turns out it was supposed to be open- It was getting repainted or something (I cain't remember exactly what). While underway, a Stokes liter stowed behind the door to aft steering broke free of it's mounting ("mounting" as in "lashed to the stanchion"), fell over and snapped a part of the steering hydraulics right off, pumping the hydraulic fluid everywhere. With that, we lost steering and had to use the chain falls. That night sucked.

[@jjosephm7539]

Marianas-Micronesia coastie here, CGC Basswood WLB-388, '81-83

[@joeblack7497]

I was aboard her in 1983-1984. They are more so, commonly called Vessels, Although; Ship, suffices.

[@philliphelms6505]

Served on the bouy tender Red Cedar!

[@CGRLCDR]

You are doing a nice job taking care of the ship. thanks for the tour. One thing, what's the deal with the Coast Guard Ghost Ship? I wasn't aware that the Coast Guard had any ghost ships. Semper Paratus

[@daetslovactmandcarry6999]

🤣🤣 _GHOST SHIP_ was a yearly project to convert her to a haunted house. _“Official” Ghost Ship_ Damage Controlman⁰. 🤣

[@joeblack7497]

They are called, high seas, even on the Great Lakes.

[@TheDustysix]

I've heard fresh water is worse. Less dense, and the waves are different.

[@bethcooper4200]

@@TheDustysix John on wives computer. Served on the Bramble as corpsman from 1966 to 67, You are right about the water in the Great Lakes and you can get hit by that less dense water in many directions-very dangerous waters especially when they are subject to a storm. Take the Great Lakes for granted and you risk going down to the bottom of one.

[@ericlakota1847]

I know nothing about depression charges but dropping them in the front of your ship seems sketchy to me

[@kylefrank638]

5:02 Plot twist: that's where he stores all the bodies.

[@daetslovactmandcarry6999]

🤭🤭 No, that was a space under Deck Berthing (they didn't go down there during the tour).

[@RedRepair]

I’m confused , what did he do onboard. “ bathroom , windows, drive shaft, etc ....) doesn’t know the difference between a “ Mae West “life jacket to a PKP fire Extinguisher. Didn’t work on deck or engineering. - what did he do ?

[@themodernfrontiersmen]

He worked in the galley as a chef. - Caleb

[@OffRoadRunner94]

For being prior service with the navy then to the coast guard he doesn’t know much. The 180’s also served in the Vietnam war as well. The gun mounts use to have m60’s on them.

[@peterhicks1093]

When she was in Grand Haven, she would spend some time doing drug interdiction. My understanding was that she had weapons that would be mounted when she left the Great Lakes.

[@ArtVanAuggie]

He was a FS-3, petty officer third class cook (food service specialist).

[@daetslovactmandcarry6999]

@@peterhicks1093 And just after 9/11 (per the US-Canadian Border Treaty Something Or Other).

[@michaelchamberlain9983]

I’d love to help

[@yoshit9819]

Was that ship named after a black chick?

[@daetslovactmandcarry6999]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Acacia_(WAGL-200) Asshole.

[@yoshit9819]

@@daetslovactmandcarry6999 blow me