Official Coast Guard Photograph (click
on image for large-format file)
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S4-58; photographer
unknown.
A sign posted on the end of a
public pier in Key West, late 1965.
A number of the following images
were scanned from unlabeled contact sheets in the Immigration --
Cuba -- Camarioca (1965) file from the Historian's Office.
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| Official caption: "Off loading Cuban refugees
at the Miami sea buoy."; photo dated 4 May 1964; Photo No.
7CGD-050464 #12; photographer
unknown.
Cuban refugees began leaving Cuba in mid-1959 in a steady
stream up to 1965 when the Camarioca boatlift began. |
| Official caption: "Night time distress cases
are frequent during the small boat exodus from Cuba. This
stranded boat was towed back to Key West by a U.S. Coast Guard
craft."; dated 5 November 1965; Photo Release # 6122; photographer
unknown. |
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S4-60; photographer
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Here the cutter Ariadne
(WPC-101; later WMEC-101) based out of St. Petersburg departs on a
Cuban patrol of the Florida Straits, fall, 1965. In late
August, Ariadne evacuated 39 Cubans from Cay Sal in the
Bahamas and delivered them safely to Key West. She rescued
36 more from Cay Sal in October, 1965.
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Key West pier. |
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The CGC Diligence (WPC-616,
later WMEC-616) in Key West. She had entered commissioned
service in 1964. Note the early shield device in her
recently approved "racing stripe."
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unknown.
The sport-fishing vessel Chipless,
out of Fort Lauderdale, ties up in Key West with a group of Cuban
refugees picked up in Camarioca.
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The fishing vessel Little Mike
approaches a pier in Key West.
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A February 1967 copy of a
"Resettlement Re-Cap" article on this craft noted:
"To freedom in an 8-foot 'kayak' made of metal and powered
by a lawn mower! . . .Two Cubans, Lauriano Ricoy and his wife,
left their homeland in this frail, cramped craft and after five
days in the Straits of Florida were picked up by a Coast Guard
cutter, about 34 miles east of Marathon, in the Florida
Keys. They have since resettled to New Orleans."
The Coast Guard Artifact Program
still has this craft in its collection. |
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A group of Cuban refugees are put
ashore in Key West from the cutter that rescued them.
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S4-79; photographer
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