press release
NEW LONDON, Conn. – On October 20, Dr. Peter Eident will address officer candidates at the Coast Guard Academy chapel to honor the eleven sailors who gave their lives on Oct. 20, 1978 when the Coast Guard Cutter Cuyahoga sank at the mouth of the Potomac River. The service will be at 10 a.m. and is open to the public and the media.
Eident was sailing aboard the Cuyahoga, an officer candidate training platform, as an officer candidate when the cutter collided with an Argentine coal freighter. At the time, the Cuyahoga mishap was the worse peace-time accident in Coast Guard history.
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