Coast Guard Cutter STORIS - Her Final Voyage

This picture may be the last taken of the STORIS.
Photo by Tony O'Neill

Friday, October 25, 2013, is a sad day. 

The former Coast Guard Cutter STORIS was removed from the Mothball Fleet in Suisun Bay, California where the ship had been kept since being decommissioned in 2007 after providing 64-years of service.

The STORIS was the first ship ever to circumnavigate the north American continent and she was rewarded in 2012 when she was added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

A former member of the Coast Guard who served on the STORIS, Tony O'Neill, took this picture of the STORIS as she was being towed out of the Bay Area  on her way to Ensenada, Mexico.

As a former crew member of the STORIS, I want to say this to her....

"Goodbye, Old Girl... and Thank You!"