Edward K. Beale

Edward K. Beale is an author and retired United States Coast Guard commander. He is a native of Tolland, Connecticut.

Beale grew up in eastern and central Connecticut and attended Tolland High School. At Tolland he was Cross Country team co-captain, active in the instrumental music program, founder of several clubs, and a member of the National Honor Society. He represented Tolland as a delegate to Boy's State in 1987 and earned both the John Philip Sousa band award and the Daughters of the American Revolution "good citizen" scholarship. He was also active as a member of the U.S. national orienteering team and earned the rank of Eagle Scout.

Edward Beale entered military service in 1988 as a cadet at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. During his cadet years, Beale performed with numerous musical groups, including The Idlers, the Windjammers, Regimental Band, chapel choir and NiteCaps jazz band. He was the editor of the cadet magazine Howling Gale from 1990 to 1992, and received an award from the Bill Hewitt endowment for writing. Beale held lead roles in the annual cadet musicals Lil Abner, Once Upon A Mattress, and Guys and Dolls. Graduating in 1992 with a degree in Civil Engineering, Beale was assigned as a deck watch officer aboard USCGC Munro based from Alameda, California.

After earning wings through Navy Flight School in 1994, Beale was assigned to USCG Air Station Brooklyn, New York as an HH-65 helicopter pilot in 1996. During a subsequent aviation assignment at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Beale was the first on scene responding to the sunken vessel Beth Dee Bob. This case and three others like it within a 13-day period in 1999 brought about significant changes to commercial fishing vessel regulations and inspections, and became the subject of a book titled "The Sea's Bitter Harvest" by Douglas A. Campbell .

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