title: Shipwreck of the Mesquite: Death of a Coast Guard Cutter
author:  Frederick Stonehouse 
description: Non fiction account of the running aground and eventual sinking of the Coast Guard Cutter Mesquite in Lake Superior.
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  **THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE HAS BEEN DECODED**
  
  
  **CONFIDENTIAL, COMMAND CLEARANCE REQUIRED**
  
  
  **Day 61 of Operation LAKER, Stage 3.**
  
  
  **Operative: Colonel REDACTED.**
  
  
  **Designation: RAM.**
  
  
  **Origin: Solmary, LL.**
  
  
  **Destination: COMMAND at REDACTED.**
  
  
  **-Operation LAKER completed ahead of schedule, deemed successful. Canals and
  lock points**
  
  
  **of LAKES PERIUS, MISKIN, and NERON under control of the Scarlet Guard.**
  
  
  **-Operatives WHIPPER and OPTIC will control LAKER moving forward, maintain
  close**
  
  
  **contact, open channels to MOBILE BASE and COMMAND. Stand-and-report
  protocol,**
  
  
  **awaiting action orders.**
  
  
  **-Returning to TRIAL with L