. Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year .. . and two Loran-A stations were completed. The Coast Guard, in cooperation with the St. Lawrence SeawayDevelopment Corporation and the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army,completed the plans and design for the system of aids to navigation tomark the main channel of the St. Lawrence Seaway between St. Regis,New York, and Lake Ontario, scheduled to be opened on July 5, entire system includes 83 minor lights, 3 lighted ranges, 33 lightedbuoys, and 33 unlighted buoys. In addition, ten lighted buoys a
. Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year .. . and two Loran-A stations were completed. The Coast Guard, in cooperation with the St. Lawrence SeawayDevelopment Corporation and the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army,completed the plans and design for the system of aids to navigation tomark the main channel of the St. Lawrence Seaway between St. Regis,New York, and Lake Ontario, scheduled to be opened on July 5, entire system includes 83 minor lights, 3 lighted ranges, 33 lightedbuoys, and 33 unlighted buoys. In addition, ten lighted buoys andone minor light are being maintained temporarily until final dredginghas been completed. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS 155 A summary of aids to navigation maintained at the close of each ofthe last two fiscal years follows. Type Total number June 30 Loran transmitters Radiobeacons Radarbeacons Fog signals (except sound buoys) Lights (including lightships) Daybeaeins Buoys, lighted (including sound) Buoys, unlighted s )und Buoys, unlighted metal Buoys, Mississippi River , Total. 39,992 Includes three experimental Loran-C stations. Northwest Passage During the summer of 1957, the U. S. Coast Guard Cutters Storis,Spar, and Bramble were assigned to the Arctic area for surve3^s in theCanadian Archipelago. While on this assignment, the three ships weregiven the mission of surveying a practicable west to east deep waterpassage through the Archipelago. Successfully completing this mis-sion, they were the first American ships to travel from th? Pacific Oceanto the Atlantic Ocean across the roof of the North American of the ships, the Spar, set an additional record as it became the firstAmerican vessel to completely circumnavigate the North AmericanContinent in one summer. The Spar departed Bristol, R. I., in May1957, traveled through the Panama Canal and up the west coast, andreturned to Bristol via the Arctic. Ocean stations Throughout fiscal 1958 the Coast
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