Coast Guard air crew members aboard two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and a HC-130 Hercules airplane from Air Station Clearwater, Fla., fly over the Coast Guard Cutter Vice, a 75-foot Class Inland Construction Tender homeported in St. Petersburg, Fla., during the 37th annual Blackthorn memorial service in St. Petersburg, Friday, Jan. 27, 2016. The Blackthorn sank after colliding with the tanker Capricorn near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, in St. Petersburg, Jan. 28, 1980, resulting in the Coast Guard's worst peacetime disaster. Coast Guard

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