‘For me, my craft is sailing on,
Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.
Whate’er the final harbor be
’T is good to sail upon the sea!’
— John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922)
The Coast Guard cutter Wire (WYTL-65612), a 65-foot icebreaking tug homeported in Saugerties, New York, makes her way through ice in New York Harbor, 28 January 2004.
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