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 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-7718 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2015-02-17 18:36:11"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ice-age-comences-700x300.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-7718 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-7759 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2015-02-19 18:00:01"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ice-Breakers-in-Chesapeake-332x142.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-7759 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-1250 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2011-01-17 12:03:25"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cold-day-on-the-Bay-323x138.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-1250 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
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 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-7760 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2015-02-19 18:06:15"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Oyster-Ice-by-Ronald-Hall-Jr.-Facebook-page-700x300.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-7760 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-7608 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2015-02-11 11:45:43"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DSCF4347-700x300.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-7608 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-7762 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2015-02-19 18:15:00"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Cape-Charles-Va.-town-harbor-frozen-480x205.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-7762 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
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 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-7787 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2015-02-20 23:31:29"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sunset-from-Kent-Island-overlooking-the-Chesapeake-Bay-Bridge-700x300.jpg" height="300" width="700" alt="" class="slider-7758 slide-7787 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va. - The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.</div></div></li>
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<p>The largest icebreaker in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources fleet will make an out-of-state house call Saturday to free the frozen residents of Virginia’s Tangier Island.</p>
<figure id="attachment_7756" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7756" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DSCF1014.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-7756" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DSCF1014-300x225.jpg" alt="Sharon Kay heads for Tangier Island in warm weather. Now she will be escorted by the Maryland NRP cutter J. Millard Tawes cutting a path in the ice. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo" width="300" height="225" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7756" class="wp-caption-text">Sharon Kay heads for Tangier Island in warm weather. Now she will be escorted by the Maryland NRP cutter J. Millard Tawes cutting a path in the ice. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_1250" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1250" style="width: 323px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cold-day-on-the-Bay.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1250" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cold-day-on-the-Bay.jpg" alt="Cold day to be boating on the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard photo" width="323" height="500" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1250" class="wp-caption-text">Cold day to be boating on the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard photo</figcaption></figure>
<p>DNR’s 100-foot vessel, J. Millard Tawes, will divert from its duties keeping the shipping channel clear between Crisfield and Smith Island to attack the glacier that has enveloped Tangier, a Chesapeake Bay island 12 miles from the mainland that is part of Accomack County, Va.</p>
<p>John Gallagher, director of DNR’s hydrographic operations, said he received a call for assistance Thursday morning from Tangier Mayor James Eskridge after a Coast Guard icebreaker broke down. Gallagher said he expects the Tawes will arrive early Saturday morning to break ice and then escort the ferry boat Sharon Kay III to Crisfield. The plan is weather dependent.</p>
<p>Tangier is a little more than one square mile and has a population of slightly more than 700 residents.</p>
<p>“In the past we have been happy to assist the people of Tangier Island when a Coast Guard cutter was not available,” Gallagher said. “We are happy to be a good Chesapeake Bay neighbor again.”</p>
<p>The Tawes is one of four vessels in DNR’s icebreaking operation that works on concert with the U.S. Coast Guard to keep commerce moving on the bay and its tributaries and fuel and supplies flowing to isolated communities.<a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/02/On-way-to-Tangier-Island-to-break-ice-on-J-Millard-Tawes.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7757" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/02/On-way-to-Tangier-Island-to-break-ice-on-J-Millard-Tawes-300x225.jpg" alt="On way to Tangier Island to break ice on J Millard Tawes" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<figure id="attachment_1246" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1246" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ice-Breaking-on-Bay.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1246" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ice-Breaking-on-Bay-300x199.jpg" alt="Coast Guard Cutter Capstan clears a path through ice on the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard photo" width="300" height="199" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1246" class="wp-caption-text">Coast Guard Cutter Capstan clears a path through ice on the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard photo</figcaption></figure>
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Maryland sending DNR Cutter J Millard Tawes to break path thru ice to Tangier Island Va.
Coast Guard Cutter Capstan breaking through the ice in shipping channel on the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard photo