Coast Guard on Patrol

The Coast Guard checking a boat inside the Porto Mediceo.
La Guardia Costiera controlla un'imbarcazione all'interno del Porto Mediceo.

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Our farewell / Il nostro saluto

CP 2089

Coast Guard patrol boat CP 2089, port of Livorno.
Motovedetta della Guardia Costiera CP 2089, porto di Livorno.

Last January

Almost a year ago, inside the Porto Mediceo.
Quasi un anno fa, all'interno del Porto Mediceo.

Ingianni, Porpora & Murena

The “Giulio Ingianni” is a deep-sea patrol boat of the Italian Coast Guard. “Porpora” and “Murena” are former in-shore minesweepers now mainly used as training vessels for the cadets of the Naval Academy. (Already posted on Instagram)
La “Giulio Ingianni” è una motovedetta d'altura della Guardia costiera italiana. “Porpora” e “Murena” sono due ex dragamine litoranei che vengono oggi principalmente impiegati per l'addestramento degli allievi dell'Accademia Navale. (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

CP 409

“Giulio Ingianni” (CP 409) is a deep-sea patrol boat of the Italian Coast Guard, built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona and delivered in 1992.
La “Giulio Ingianni” (CP 409) è una motovedetta d'altura della Guardia costiera italiana, costruita alla Fincantieri di Ancona e consegnata nel 1992.

External links: Italian patrol boat Giulio Ingianni - Coast Guard (Wikipedia)
Link esterni: Giulio Ingianni (CP 409) - Guardia costiera (Wikipedia)

CP 866 at the Green Light

Search and Rescue patrol boat CP 866 leaving the Porto Mediceo. (Already posted on Instagram)
Il battello per ricerca e salvataggio CP 866 all'uscita del Porto Mediceo. (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

Diving in January

Diving in January to place new buoys in the Porto Mediceo. (Photo taken last January)
Immergersi in gennaio per piazzare nuove boe nel Porto Mediceo. (Foto scattata lo scorso gennaio)

Motorboats

Motorboats of the Coast Guard inside the Old Port.
Motovedette della Guardia Costiera all'interno della Darsena Vecchia.

External links: Italian Coast Guard (Wikipedia)
Link esterni: Corpo delle capitanerie di porto - Guardia costiera (Wikipedia)

CP 609

Cost Guard's CP 609 checking a boat at the Capitaneria pier.

External links: Coast Guard (Wikipedia)

Versione italiana

CP 904 Michele Fiorillo

The 53-meter “Michele Fiorillo” is a Diciotti-class offshore patrol vessel of the Italian Coast Guard.

External links: Diciotti-class offshore patrol vessel - Coast Guard (Wikipedia)

Versione italiana

Bruno Gregoretti

The “Bruno Gregoretti” (CP 312) has been a Coast Guard cutter for almost thirty years. Dismissed in 2008, the boat was recently restored and it is now moored at the Andana degli Anelli, inside the Porto Mediceo, as a museum ship.

She was originally built in Germany as a 23-meter ‘Seenotrettungskreuzer’ (rescue boat), and the refurbished cruiser bears her original and quite unusual livery.

External links: Seenotrettungskreuzer (Wikipedia, in German)
- Gregoretti, il mito torna a splendere (Il Tirreno, in Italian)

Versione italiana

Sick Day

Last Tuesday was my first sick day in years, but they quickly sent the Coast Guard to check on me...

See also: From My Terrace - Chased by a Copter
External links: Bell 412 (Wikipedia)

Versione italiana

Piazza della Sanità

The entrance to the Capitaneria di Porto and Coast Guard offices, inside the Porto Mediceo. This is not the actual Piazza della Sanità, which is behind the building, but Via del Molo Mediceo.

External links: Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard (Wikipedia)
Search labels: Coast Guard

Versione italiana

Kojima

The 115-meter “Kojima” (PL 21) is a training ship of the 海上保安庁 (Japan Coast Guard).

She was built in 1993 at the Maizuru yard in the Kyoto prefecture by the Hitachi Zosen Corporation.

The “Kojima” is the fourth vessel, the third bearing this name, used for on-board training of the cadets of the Japan Coast Guard Academy of Kure, in the Hiroshima prefecture.

External links: Japan Coast Guard - Japan Coast Guard Academy (Wikipedia)
- Kojima Again (Tugster: a waterblog) - Japan coast guard ship visiting Da Nang (Tuoi Tre News)

Versione italiana

Red Stripe

The so-called Racing Stripe originates from an idea of President John F. Kennedy, who wished to improve the world-wide visual identification of the U.S. government. In 1964 the new stripe was proposed in application of this directive and was first used on USCG boats in 1967, becoming an international standard in a few decades.

The 10-meter 34-knot CP 554 in the Porto Mediceo

The USCGC “Bainbridge Island” (WPB-1343) in the New York Harbor

The French patrol boat P675 “Arago” at the Capitaneria pier

See also: Piaggio P166 - Coast Guard - Calm Waters - CP 867 & Nataly - CP 867 - CP 866 - CP 409 Ingianni
External links: Traditions of the United States Coast Guard

Versione italiana

Hazy Noon

After a few days of sun, a grey and hazy Sunday morning at the 29th TAN.The MSC Orchestra is in port and the sailboats are at sea, on the racing fields.On the other side of the port, a forest of masts...

Search labels: Coast Guard - TAN - Tuttovela
See also: CP 866
External links: MSC Orchestra

Versione italiana

CP 409 Ingianni

The 34-meter CP 409 Ingianni, built in 1992 at the CRN shipyard in Ancona, is the biggest patrol boat of the Italian Coast Guard. The red stripe is the international symbol of the coast guard, usually personalized by each country, in our case with a thin green stripe and an anchor.

See also: Piaggio P166 - Coast Guard - Calm Waters - CP 867 & Nataly - CP 867 - CP 866

Versione italiana

CP 866

Search and Rescue patrol boat CP 866 speeding back into the “Porto Mediceo” and, in background, the tug “Francesca Neri”.
See also: CP 867 - Calm Waters - CP 867 & Nataly - Coast Guard - Piaggio P166

Versione italiana

CP 867

These have been quite busy days for the Coast Guard...

See also: Calm Waters - CP 867 & Nataly - Coast Guard - Piaggio P166

Versione italiana

CP 867 & Nataly

Search and Rescue boat CP 867 inside the “Porto Mediceo”.In background the 65-meter superyacht “Nataly”.

See also: CP 867 - Calm Waters - Coast Guard - Piaggio P166

Versione italiana