- Date
- 2006
- Kind
- Rescue
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- emergency-managementemergency-managementmaritimegovernmentcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 2006 Beaver Beacon announced that Beaver Island would receive a new 24-foot rescue boat with support from the Grand Traverse Bay Band of Chippewa and Odawa Indians, restoring a dedicated Island rescue capability after the previous boat’s auction a decade earlier.
Evidence limits
The OCR column break interrupts the grant details; this record preserves only the announcement, boat size, supporting Nation, and prior-boat context directly recoverable from the issue.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2006, "A New Rescue Boat."Announces that Beaver Island would soon have its own 24-foot rescue boat with support from the Grand Traverse Bay Band of Chippewa and Odawa Indians, a decade after the previous boat was auctioned. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the rescue-boat announcement.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island receives support for a new 24-foot rescue boat, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rescue-boat-grant-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2006, "A New Rescue Boat." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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