Negligent Navigation: The Tragedy of USCGC Blackthorn

REFERENCES, SOURCES & FEATURED MEDIA
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Negligent Navigation: The Tragedy of USCGC Blackthorn
Video Link: https://youtu.be/II7jld-SS84

PRIMARY
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NTSB:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg5UAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA15-PA7&lpg=RA15-PA7&dq=%22BLACKTHORN%22#v=onepage&q=blackthorn&f=false

USCG:
https://homeport.uscg.mil/Lists/Content/DispForm.aspx?ID=60037&Source=/Lists/Content/DispForm.aspx?ID=60037
https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Water/All/Article/2409221/blackhaw-1943-wlb-390/
https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Water/All/Article/2409275/bramble-1944-wlb-392/
https://www.cem.va.gov/docs/wcag/hmm/Inscription-Abbreviations-Ranks-Coast-Guard.pdf
https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Capability-CG-7/Office-of-Cutter-Forces-CG-751/Coast-Guard-Cutter-Fleet/
https://media.defense.gov/2017/Mar/13/2001710457/-1/-1/0/IRIS_CLASS_BUOY_TENDER_MODEL_PLANS.PDF
https://www.mycg.uscg.mil/News/Article/3248740/the-long-blue-line-no-greater-lovebilly-flores-hero-of-the-cutter-blackthorn/
https://web.archive.org/web/20080924124910/http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Blackthorn1944.asp
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/us-vhf-channel-information
https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Water/All/Cutters-65-ft-or-greater/?Page=15
https://web.archive.org/web/20050220160309/http://www.uscg.mil/d8/groups/grugalv/oldsite/blkphoto.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20170209185721/http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Blackthorn1944.pdf


SECONDARY, CROSS REFERENCE & MISC
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https://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/alabama.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belorussiya-class_cruiseferry#Kazakhstan
https://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/marineiron.htm
https://archive.org/details/uscgc.cowslip.1998/page/n1/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2_tanker
https://tbep.org/estuary/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20Tampa%20Bay%20is,activity%20in%20watershed%20and%20beyond.
https://www.boatus.org/study-guide/navigation/sounds/
https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Platforms/Article-View/Article/2686964/nautical-terms-and-naval-expressions-seamanship-edition-part-3/#:~:text=CONNING%20OFFICER,thrust%20of%20the%20ship's%20engines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_470
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Type_T2_tankers
https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-recs/RecLetters/M99_23.pdf
https://www.ecolregs.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=162:visibility-of-lights-in-vessels-over-50-m&Itemid=505&lang=en
https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/news/2014/08/31/1-366888/33968432007/


FEATURED MEDIA
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AUKE VISSER:
https://www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker/id520.htm
https://www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker/id920.htm
ST PETE CATALYST:
https://stpetecatalyst.com/vintage-st-pete-the-blackthorn-tragedy/
BVI4092: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bvi4092/46782796402
WFLA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8OSGHDfHA8
GOPRO DIVER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaBt9JQaQhI
https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/documents/6f83726b-609d-450f-992a-a600a2f770ab.pdf
https://picryl.com/search?q=cutter%20blackthorn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eli_dark/53041941335/in/photostream/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQS3UlDME8
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/312975/coast-guard-cutters-around-continent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNW83rO7Oa4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p__21zMEUPQ
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Type_T2-SE-A1_tanker_Hat_Creek_underway_at_sea_on_16_August_1943.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_DC-6B_N8228H_%284762204011%29.jpg
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1086133/uscgc-iris-patrol-off-oregon-coast-robert-tandecki