USCGC Mellon
Videos
USCGC Mellon was the third United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class high endurance cutter constructed. The 2,748-ton cutter’s ocean crossing range was 10,000 miles at 20 knots.
USCGC Mellon (WHEC-717) in the Bering Sea, 2001.
USCGC MELLON WHEC 717
USCGC Mellon launching an RGM-84 Harpoon missile in 1990.
CSB 8022 during its transfer to the Vietnamese operators.
MS Prinsendam (1972)
Videos
MS Prinsendam, was a Holland America Line cruise ship built at Shipyard de Merwede in the Netherlands in 1973. She was 427 feet long and typically carried about 350 passengers and 200 crew members.
USCGC Mellon
…carrier HMAS Melbourne. The rest were taken back to Honolulu on Mellon. In October 1980, Mellon assisted in the rescue of 520 passengers and crew of the MS Prinsendam, a 427 foot long luxury cruise liner in distress in the Gulf of Alaska when fire broke out in her engine room. The vessel’s master declared the fire…
MS Prinsendam on fire off Alaska, 1980
A model of MS Prinsendam.
MS Volendam, Fremantle, 2012