Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau crew invites public to open house

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau will host an open house for the public today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Coast Guard Station Juneau pier.

The tour of the Morgenthau is free to the public. All children must be accompanied by an adult and no pets are allowed aboard the cutter.

The Morgenthau is a 378-foot Hamilton-class high endurance cutter with a home port in Honolulu, Hawaii. The cutter has a crew of 160, including 20 officers and 140 enlisted personnel.

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The crew patrols from South America to the Bering Sea, conducting counter-narcotics missions, alien migrant interdiction operations, foreign and domestic fisheries enforcement, and search and rescue.

For more information about the Morgenthau crew and their missions, visit www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMorgenthau/ or contact Ensign Marina Stevens at marina.a.stevens@uscg.mil.

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