Welcome to Coast Guard Corner a web page designed for friends and “old Coastie” types who have sailed the seas, stood the watches, gone on the SAR cases and given their best years setting buoys in dangerous places.
This page has been set up to honor the memory of Capt. Bill Brogdon and for the benefit of all his friends and shipmates who remain. Please use it to post news of coming events or to tell old sea stories and show unforgettable pictures from the past, from the Chilula reunions or any other ship/ duty station that brought you together with Capt. Bill.
Pictures don’t necessarily have to have Capt. Bill in them to be posted—other reunions or shipboard pictures and memorabilia are welcome. Send mail, photographs and information to: wbrogdon@ec.rr.com.
NOW HEAR THIS!
The USCGC Chilula WATF/WMEC-153 will have it's 11th Annual Reunion on
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008 at Coast Guard Base Ft. Macon, Atlantic Beach,
NC time 1000-1400. All former crew members and their guests are welcome.
If you plan to come, please contact me, QMCS Larry Richter, Ret, USCGC
Chilula Coordinator and Plankowner. I need to furnish the base with a
rough headcount.
Hope to see you there.
QMCS Larry Richter, Ret.
richter@clis.com
252-726-5733
CHILULA MEMORABILIA
Chilula (ATF-153) was launched 1 December 1944 by Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C.; sponsored by Mrs. C. G. Thigpen; and commissioned 5 April 1945, Lieutenant O. L. Guinn in command.
Chilula stood out from Norfolk 14 May 1945 for Algiers, La., arriving 19 May. She took section 58 of ABSD-7 in tow, and sailed 27 May for the Canal Zone, arriving Cristobal 5 June. Between 7 and 12 June, she towed ABSD sections through the Panama Canal. Clearing Balboa 16 June she reached Eniwetok 31 July, for towing duties. She left Eniwetok 8 September, entered Tokyo Bay 20 September, and until 11 January 1946 operated from Yokosuka. Between 11 January and 28 January, she voyaged from Yokosuka to Tsingtao towing YO-17. Chilula sailed from Yokosuka 3 April, for Orange, Tex., and was placed out of commission in reserve 8 February 1947. She was lent to the Coast Guard 9 July 1956.
