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Wreck & Rescue, Volume 12, Number 1

Coast Guard Cutter Tackle Smashes Ice on Maine's Penobscot River by Bob Trapani, Jr.
The Galveston Life-Saving Station, September 1900: The Anatomy of a Super Hurricane and the Perils of Working for the United States Life-Saving Service by William H. Thiesen, Ph.D., Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian
"I Think We Might Have Just Pissed Some People Off": Coast Guard Special Forces in Bolivia by Matthew Mitchell
An Interview with World War II Veteran Paul Inden by Thomas P. Ostrom
Designed for Heroes: Dobbins-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret).
Museum Spotlight: Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston, Texas
Book Reviews: Penikese: Island of Hope; Coasties Guard Us A Through Z; United States Coast Guard Grade Insignia Since 1834, In Color Plates; Not Your Father's Coast Guard: The Untold Story of U.S. Coast Guard Special Forces; True Stories of Rescue and Survival: Canada's Unknown Heroes

Wreck & Rescue, Volume 11, Number 4

Doing it the Delmarva Way: The 2009 USLSSHA Annual Meeting and Conference by Debbie Allyn Jett
A Seashore Landmark's Last Best Hope: Ocean City (NJ) Life-Saving Station For Sale by Charles London and Kimball Baker
White Hurricane at the Lewes Breakwater by Michael Morgan
Designed for Heroes: Race Point-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret).
Museum Spotlight: West Quoddy Light
Book Reviews: The United States Coast Guard in World War II: A History of Domestic and Overseas Actions; The Metal Lifecar: The Inventor, the Impostor and the Business of Life Saving; Rehoboth Beach: A History of Surf and Sand; Zeb: Schooner Life (DVD)

Wreck & Rescue, Volume 11, Number 3

How to Save a Life (Saving Station): The History of the Ocean City (MD) Life-Saving Station and Museum by James A. Hiteshew
Captain Henry G. Hemingway: Guardian, Cutterman, Leader of Men by William H. Thiesen, Ph. D
Tragedy off Rogers City: The Loss of Superintendent Joseph Sawyer and Keeper George Feaben, October 20, 1880 by Debbie Allyn Jett
Admiral Russell R. Waesche: World War II Coast Guard Commandant by Thomas P. Ostrom
The Golden Venture: Where Migrant Interdiction and Search and Rescue Collided by Dennis L. Noble
Designed for Heroes: Monomoy-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret.)
Museum Spotlight: USCGC Taney
Book Reviews: The Morris Island Lighthouse: Charleston's Maritime Beacon; Images of America: South Carolina Lighthouses; Images of America: Georgia's Lighthouses; Images of America: Maryland's Lighthouses; Lighthouses of the Golden State: California's Shining Beacons; One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw; Beavertail Light Station on Conanicut Island.

Wreck & Rescue, Volume 11, Number 2

The Loss of Israel Merritt's Circassian by Dennis M. Powers
The Grounding of the U.S. Navy Submarine S-19 by William P. Quinn
Submarine S-19 Salvage from Nauset Beach by Robert Beattie
Tragedy in the Pentland Firth by Nicholas Leach
Requiem for a Lost Lighthouse Keeper by John J. Galluzzo
Echoes from the Surf: Horace Norton's Letter to the Editor
Designed for Heroes: The Jersey-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret.)
Museum Spotlight: The National Museum of Naval Aviation
Book Reviews: The Historic Northwest Passage and the CGC Storis; Images of America: The 1938 Hurricane Along New England's Coast; Recollections of 32 Years in the U.S. Coast Guard and Other Reminiscences; Images of America: Lighthouses of the Bay Area