Don White wrote:
Yyesterday, 18 members of the US Coast Guard International Ice Patrol,
attended a ceremony at the Titanic victims gravesite in Halifax re 96th
anniversary.
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1049961.html


I served in the USCG from 1972 to 1976 in the aviation unit out of
Elizabeth City, that did the Ice Patrol.

Every year we would outfit a plane and send it up to St. John's to fly
Ice Patrol. They were about a month long. I went on one of these
missions myself.

Just as I was leaving we got a brand new C-130, #1504.

Last year while I was rounding the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland I
heard the #1504 call for assistance for anyone on the surface to report
the position of bergs.

31 years later and that plane is still in service.