Nomination of Decommisioned USCGC STORIS Accepted

On July 31, 2012  we were notified that our Nomination of the decommissioned USCGC STORIS, W-38, which is currently in storage with the U. S. Maritime Administration’s National Defense Fleet, aka “Ghost Fleet”, at Suisun Bay, California, was accepted by the State of California.  This will be processed and reviewed by state historical personnel and if found to meet the qualifications for registration will be forwarded to the National Park Service for final review and acceptance.  We still have a long way to go but hopefully it will be easier from here on in to the final approval.

Considerable work was done on this project. We were extremely fortunate to have found Mr. Jon Ottman, Historian and Writer,  of  Warren, Michigan. Mr. Ottman had recently  submitted the nomination of BRAMBLE.  Mr. Ottman, with the assistance of those below, produced a document for the nomination we should have no trouble with.

David E. Bitterman, CWO4 ENG, STORIS, March 1988-June 1991

Charles L. Cashin, CAPT, U.S. Coast Guard, CO USCGC Stratton.

Bob Dick, BM3, U.S.C.G. Vet

James D. Johnson, CDR, U.S.C.G (Ret).

Michael Lewis, EM2, U.S.C.G. Vet

James L. McCauley, CAPT, U.S.C.G.

Brenton S. Michaels, LCDR, U.S.C.G. Ret).

Greg Papineau, BMC, U.S.C.G. (Ret).

Rene Plante, SK2, U.S.C.G. Vet

Scott Rutherford, BM2, U.S.C.G. Vet

Thank You!

We would like to express our gratitude to each of those who helped and also all of those who helped in the back ground by providing the bits of information and/or leads to insure the accuracy of the nomination.