Chase's service with the Corps of Engineers concluded with tenures as superintending engineer of the improvement of Choctaw Pass and Dog River Bar at Mobile Bay between 1852 and 1854 and of construction of Fort Taylor at Key West, Florida between 1852 and 1854.
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Canby and Farragut had already decided before the first landings on Dauphin Island that the army could not provide enough men to attack Mobile itself; furthermore, the Dog River Bar that had impeded bringing " Tennessee " down now prevented Farragut's fleet from going up.
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On February 5, 1863, while steaming down Mobile Bay with 100 extra men in search of a blockader to carry by boarding, " Selma " was bilged by a snag in crossing Dog River Bar, entrance to Mobile, and sank in 8 feet of water.
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In 2014 the Coast Guard announced that John F . McCormick a Coast Guard seaman who earned a Gold lifesaving medal for saving the life of fellow Coast Guard sailor, Richard O . Bracken, off Clatsop Spit, near the treacherous Columbia River bar, would be the namesake of the 21th cutter.
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On Sunday, April 29, 1901, word was received in Tillamook City, by telephone call, that in trying to cross the Nehalem River bar in the tow of " Vosburg ", " Wheeler " went ashore on the south spit, and would probably be a total loss . " Vosburg " made it inside safely.
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We have, from de Couto, a picture of him standing knee-deep in the mud of the river bar, endeavouring to embark succours in the boats, while ever and anon his attempts thus to rally his forces were frustrated by the sight of the fugitives, some in boats, some swimming down the river, and all shouting, " Treason!
47.
The seas were reported to have been heavy . " Wolverine " safely passed both the Coos Bay and Coquille River bars, and arrived in Bandon at about 8 : 00 p . m . Hundreds of people came to the Bandon docks to see the arrival of the new vessel and greet the people from Coos Bay.
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The river bar, 600 yards out in the lake, is a semicircle, and parties of travellers with loaded donkeys were passing round it instead of crossing the river . " Merchants based in Yifag would transport bars of salt or " amoleh " in small boats or " tankwas " down the Reb to Zege on the lake to trade for coffee.
49.
While " Ivy " was waiting out a storm at anchor in Willapa Bay, Washington; " Ivy " was called to assist the Japanese M / V " Suwaharu Maru " carrying a cargo of logs and the Liberian M / V " Mandoil II " carrying a cargo of naptha which had collided 340 miles from the Columbia River Bar off the Oregon coast.
