PRESS RELEASE Contact: Frank Kups For Immediate Release 954-990-1078

US Coast Guard Cutter M/V BRAMBLE Goes to Court Auction

-The auction will take place on December 4, 2019 in Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, AL— November 19, 2019 — The US District Court, Southern District of Alabama entered an order to auction off the retired US Coast Guard Cutter USCGC BRAMBLE.

Once a familiar site on the , the BRAMBLE will be sold at auction on

Wednesday, December 4, 2019. The auction will take place at noon local time near the front entrance to the US District Courthouse, 155 St. Joseph Street, Mobile,

Alabama, 36602.

The BRAMBLE was built by the Zenith Dredge Company, which was located at the foot of 13th Avenue West, Duluth, . The keel was laid on August 2,

1943 and the vessel launched on October 23, 1943. Six months later the commissioning ceremony took place on April 22, 1944, with an initial designation of

WAGL meaning “auxiliary vessel, lighthouse tender”, which changed to WLB in 1965.

The hull number, 392, remained the same from commission. This vessel was built to serve as a 180′ U.S. Coast Guard cutter. The federal government purchased or built thirty-nine of these vessels, built in three sub-classes, from 1942-1944. The United

States Coast Guard (USCG) designed the 180’s to service Aids-to-Navigation (AtoN), perform Search and Rescue missions (SAR), carry out Law Enforcement duties (LE), and conduct ice-breaking operations. Members of the class have served in the USCG from 1942 to the present. They have significantly contributed to safe navigation on inland and international waters in times of peace and war.

BRAMBLE was the subject of a civil matter filed in August by several lien claimants. All further information on the case and the auction is referenced in #19- cv-00434, SD Alabama.

For more details on bidding rules, deposit requirements contact:

Frank Kups, Vice President, National Liquidators

Direct Phone (954) 990-1078 / General Phone (800) 633-7172

Email: [email protected]

National Liquidators/National Maritime Services have been appointed as the broker agent to market and facilitate the transfer to new ownership. The National

Companies have managed and/or sold over 30,000 vessels since their inception in

1988.

For more information on Product: www.yachtauctions.com/inventory/180-1944-zenith-dredge-company-uscg-180-cutter/11846/ www.vesselarrest.com

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