One Awesome Coast Guard Summer (Picture Heavy)

OLS · 07-21-2012, 10:52 PM

Turns out I was on that very ship in 1972....It came in and tied up at New Orleans and my Dad and i went down and took a tour
of the barque. I had no idea why a ship would be called a barque, but it was cool and my dad and I got a kick out of it. Here is
a doubloon that one of the trainees gave me, they must have been there for Mardi Gras and I bet they rode in a couple of parades
and threw the doubloons as was the Mardi Gras tradition back then, now mostly gone....

This doubloon is not in as good a shape as it once was, I am sure it was shiny as it could possibly be back then, but it came out
of my personal collection, which usually meant it spent time in a sandbox as treasure or something. Funny that it seems like no
one in the USCG approved the proof, as they seem to have spelled barque, "bark".

07-21-2012, 10:52 PM	#31
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: One Awesome Coast Guard Summer (Picture Heavy) Turns out I was on that very ship in 1972....It came in and tied up at New Orleans and my Dad and i went down and took a tour of the barque. I had no idea why a ship would be called a barque, but it was cool and my dad and I got a kick out of it. Here is a doubloon that one of the trainees gave me, they must have been there for Mardi Gras and I bet they rode in a couple of parades and threw the doubloons as was the Mardi Gras tradition back then, now mostly gone.... This doubloon is not in as good a shape as it once was, I am sure it was shiny as it could possibly be back then, but it came out of my personal collection, which usually meant it spent time in a sandbox as treasure or something. Funny that it seems like no one in the USCG approved the proof, as they seem to have spelled barque, "bark". Last edited by OLS; 07-21-2012 at 11:00 PM.