Keywords: US Navy 041206-N-6344D-002 A U.S. Coast Guardsman raises the Union Jack on the bow of Coast Guard patrol craft USCGC Shamal (WPC 13).jpg en Pascagoula Miss Dec 6 2004 A U S Coast Guardsman raises the Union Jack on the bow of Coast Guard patrol craft USCGC Shamal WPC 13 Shamal and Coast Guard patrol craft USCGC Tornado WPC 14 were commissioned as active U S Coast Guard cutters in a formal ceremony at the Naval Station Pascagoula Miss on Dec 6 Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm Thomas Collins and Sen Thad Cochran R-MS were among the guest speakers at the commissioning ceremony The Tornado and Shamal are former U S Navy patrol crafts transferred to the Coast Guard under a memorandum of agreement between the Navy and Coast Guard signed in Oct 2004 The vessels primary missions will be homeland security drug and alien migrant interdiction search and rescue operations in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico under the guidance of the Commander Coast Guard Atlantic Area U S Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Kim DeJong RELEASED 2004-12-06 041206-N-6344D-002 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 19408 U S Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Kim DeJong PD-USGov-Military-Navy Images from US Navy location Pascagoula Miss Naval Station Pascagoula Ship commissioning in the United States Coast Guard |