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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Storis departed Seattle late Friday for its annual four-month Bering Sea patrol, supplying stations, providing medical care to natives, and serving as a floating court in Alaska's western and northern regions, Pribilof, and Aleutian Islands. Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard will be aboard.
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SEATTLE, (AP) -- The cutter Storis sailed from Seattle late Friday on the Coast Guard's annual Bering Sea patrol.
The Storis will be on the patrol for four months, making calls along Alaska's western and northern shores and at the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands.
The summer patrol supplies Coast Guard stations, provides medical and dental care for the natives and acts as a floating federal court with jurisdiction over local cases.
The cutter Northwind, now on duty in the Atlantic, has made the patrol in previous years.
The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, Alaska's "Glacier Priest,"
will be a passenger aboard the Storis.
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Seattle
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Late Friday
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The cutter Storis sailed from Seattle on the Coast Guard's annual Bering Sea patrol, lasting four months, visiting Alaska's western and northern shores, Pribilof and Aleutian Islands, to supply stations, provide medical and dental care for natives, and act as a floating federal court. The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard will be a passenger. The cutter Northwind has done this patrol in previous years.