USCGC Bluebell (WLI-313) is a United States Coast Guard inland buoy tender based out of Portland, Oregon.
[2] Bluebell was moved to Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, in 1973, where she has remained since.
The other, is the Coast Guard Cutter Buckthorn (WLI-642) homeported in Sault Ste.
The crew is responsible for maintaining more than 420 aids to navigation (ATONs) along 500 miles across the Columbia, Willamette and Snake Rivers.
Altogether, Bluebell’s crew is responsible for 23 percent of the ATONs in the Pacific Northwest.