- STORIS: The Galloping Ghost of the Alaskan Coast is a documentary that chronicles the nearly 65 year history of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter STORIS and examines the roles it played during World War II, the Cold War, and throughout the post-Cold War era. The documentary will introduce some of STORIS's many officers and sailors as they recount the STORIS's most famous mission that helped define the Coast Guard's mission in Alaska and beyond.
- For over 64 years, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter STORIS patrolled the northern waters of North American. Built at the start of World War II, her tours of duty took crews from the fjords of Greenland to the Northwest Passage of the Canadian Arctic to the stormy waters of the Bering Sea off Alaska.
In a service career that lasted five to six times longer than that of most military ships, the STORIS amassed a long list of accomplishments. She became the first U.S. vessel to sail the Northwest Passage, conducted the first fisheries law enforcement seizures in the Bering Sea, and rescued over 250 people in some of the Coast Guard's most famous search & rescue cases.
The only ship built of her design and class, the STORIS became the oldest commissioned cutter in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1991, earning the title "Queen of the Fleet".
STORIS: The Galloping Ghost of the Alaska Coast examines the roles the STORIS played throughout her service and introduces some of many the officers and sailors as they recount several of the STORIS's most famous missions.
Prior to the ship's decommissioning in 2007, efforts were underway by STORIS veterans to preserve the ship as a maritime museum. However, in 2013 the STORIS was sold at auction to a scrap company that had it towed to Mexico to be broken up. This documentary now serves a valuable role in preserving the history of this little known ship.
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By what name was STORIS: The Galloping Ghost of the Alaskan Coast (2015) officially released in India in English?
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