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Norman Robert Vernier
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Norman Robert Vernier

Birth
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Death
14 Sep 1944 (aged 20)
At Sea
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Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Launched and commissioned as Antietam, USCGC Bedloe was first stationed in Boston, where she served out of until 1935. She was assigned to law enforcement and search and rescue duties and also broke ice when needed. She then transferred to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and saw service on the Great Lakes. She was sent to Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1940 where her armament was upgraded at the plant of Tietjen & Lang. She was assigned to the EASTSEAFRON (Eastern Sea Frontier) and was stationed out of Stapleton, Staten Island, where she saw service as a convoy escort vessel along the eastern seaboard.
On 9 March 1942 she rescued 16 survivors of the torpedoed tanker Gulftrade. She was renamed the Bedloe on 1 June 1943 and was lost, along with her sister cutter Jackson, while going to the assistance of a merchant vessel in the powerful hurricane off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 14 September 1944. Twenty-six of her crew perished while 12 survivors were rescued.
Launched and commissioned as Antietam, USCGC Bedloe was first stationed in Boston, where she served out of until 1935. She was assigned to law enforcement and search and rescue duties and also broke ice when needed. She then transferred to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and saw service on the Great Lakes. She was sent to Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1940 where her armament was upgraded at the plant of Tietjen & Lang. She was assigned to the EASTSEAFRON (Eastern Sea Frontier) and was stationed out of Stapleton, Staten Island, where she saw service as a convoy escort vessel along the eastern seaboard.
On 9 March 1942 she rescued 16 survivors of the torpedoed tanker Gulftrade. She was renamed the Bedloe on 1 June 1943 and was lost, along with her sister cutter Jackson, while going to the assistance of a merchant vessel in the powerful hurricane off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 14 September 1944. Twenty-six of her crew perished while 12 survivors were rescued.

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S2C, US COAST GUARD WORLD WAR II

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