HOUSTON - Local Coast Guard personnel flank the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn's memorial Jan. 28, 2011, 31 years after it sank off the coast of Florida.
On Jan. 28, 1980 at approximately 7:21 p.m. the Blackthorn and the motor tanker Capricorn collided by the Sunshine Skyway Bridge near St. Petersburg, Fla., resulting in the loss of 23 crewmen and the largest peacetime loss of life in Coast Guard history.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Brahm.
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