Cuban Refugees. Eleven Cuban refugees, with their battered craft beached on Cay Lobos, 15 miles from Cuba in the British Bahamas, wave to a Coast Guard patrol plane from Miami that has spoted them. The Coast Guard Cutter Androscoggin, on patrol in the area, was sent to the island to remove the refugees and deliver them to Miami. With the group of refugees are two British subjects who live on Cay Lobos, which accounts for thirteen persons here. This assistance case boasted the total number to 3,825 of Cuban refugees helped to freedom by the Coast Guard since the exodus from Cuba
Cuban Refugees. Eleven Cuban refugees, with their battered craft beached on Cay Lobos, 15 miles from Cuba in the British Bahamas, wave to a Coast Guard patrol plane from Miami that has spoted them. The Coast Guard Cutter Androscoggin, on patrol in the area, was sent to the island to remove the refugees and deliver them to Miami. With the group of refugees are two British subjects who live on Cay Lobos, which accounts for thirteen persons here. This assistance case boasted the total number to 3,825 of Cuban refugees helped to freedom by the Coast Guard since the exodus from Cuba began in 1959.
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