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USFS Blue Wing

USFS Blue Wing is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand USFS Blue Wing rather than just read about it. In short: USFS Blue Wing was an American fishery patrol vessel that operated in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. She was part of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (BOF) fleet from 1924 to 1940.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of USFS Blue Wing from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

USFS Blue Wing was an American fishery patrol vessel that operated in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. She was part of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (BOF) fleet from 1924 to 1940. She then served as US FWS Blue Wing in the fleet of the Fish and Wildlife Service from 1940 until at least 1951. Before her United States Government service, she was the commercial purse seiner August. In private ownership after the conclusion of her U.S. Government career she was renamed El Don.

Bureau of Fisheries

Construction and acquisition The vessel was constructed in 1918 as the commercial purse seiner August. The United States Bureau of Fisheries (BOF) purchased her in 1924 and renamed her USFS Blue Wing.

Operational history On 29 July 1924, Blue Wing departed Seattle, Washington, to head north to the Territory of Alaska to begin her first season of fishery patrol work. She patrolled in Southeast Alaska until early September 1924, then moved to Cook Inlet on the coast of Southcentral Alaska to patrol there. In 1925, Blue Wing was reassigned to summer patrol duties in the Kodiak Archipelago. Based at the BOF fish hatchery at Afognak Lake (also known as Litnik Lake) on Afognak Island, for the next ten years she served as tender to the hatchery and conducted fishery protection patrols around Kodiak Island and Afognak Island each summer. Each autumn, she usually moved to Southeast Alaska to patrol there for the remainder of the season. During either the winter of 1929–1930 or the winter of 1930–1931 (sources disagree), Blue Wing underwent a significant renovation during which her original 50-horsepower (37 kW) Union engine was replaced by a 50-horsepower (37 kW) three-cylinder Standard gasoline engine taken from the BOF fishery patrol vessel USFS Scoter when Scoter received a new engine. Scoter's original engine was rebored before being installed on Blue Wing. During the mid-1930s, Blue Wing added Bristol Bay to her patrol areas. In June 1936, her service in the Kodiak Archipelago came to an end and her summer patrol responsibilities shifted to Prince William Sound in Southcentral Alaska. During the spring of 1937, she assisted in the replacement of stream markers in the Ketchikan district in Southeast Alaska.

Fish and Wildlife Service In 1939, the BOF was transferred from the United States Department of Commerce to the United States Department of the Interior, and on 30 June 1940, it was merged with the Interior Department's Division of Biological Survey to form the new Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), an element of the Interior Department that was destined to become the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1956. The vessel thus became part of the FWS fleet as US FWS Blue Wing. In 1941, Blue Wing suffered engine damage during a severe gale off British Columbia, Canada, and narrowly avoided running ground. A search for her began when she was reported missing. After several days, Canadian police found her at anchor on the British Columbia coast while her crew attempted to repair her engine. In February 1951, Blue Wing was still in FWS service, based at Craig in Southeast Alaska. At some point thereafter she was sold into private ownership, and later had the name El Don.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with USFS Blue Wing

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what USFS Blue Wing claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to USFS Blue Wing before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about USFS Blue Wing ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of USFS Blue Wing

In research: USFS Blue Wing appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses USFS Blue Wing in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: USFS Blue Wing is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1918 ships, Fishery protection vessels, Maritime incidents in 1941, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for USFS Blue Wing outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study USFS Blue Wing in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is USFS Blue Wing in simple terms?

USFS Blue Wing was an American fishery patrol vessel that operated in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. She was part of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (BOF) fleet from 1924 to 1940.

Why does USFS Blue Wing matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study USFS Blue Wing?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on USFS Blue Wing.