USCGC Alder (WLB-216)
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USCGC Alder is the final Juniper-class, 225-foot seagoing buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard.
Alder at a dock in Duluth, Minnesota
USCGC Spar (WLB-206)
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USCGC Spar is a United States Coast Guard Juniper-class seagoing buoy tender home-ported in Duluth, Minnesota. The ship maintains aids to navigation in the Twin Ports and Great Lakes.
USCGC Alder (WLB-216)
…In August 2022, she was reassigned to the San Francisco Bay area. Her duties in the Twin Ports of Duluth/Superior were taken over by her sister tender USCGC Spar (WLB-206). Alder is designed as a multi-mission vessel, with its missions being Aids to Navigation, Icebreaking, Search and Rescue, Homeland Security, Law…
USCGC Spar (WLB-206)
USCGC SPAR seal
Launch of USCGC Spar
USCGC Spar docked in Ketchikan