For this feat he was presented with a gold watch suitably inscribed by citizens of Chicago." The crew also enforced fisheries laws and regulations to ensure sustainable fishing is practiced in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. 1947 The U.S. Air Force's official birthday: the Air Force was created as a separate military service on this date. 1983 LT Edith Munro, USCGR, a World War II SPAR veteran and the mother of Coast Guard hero Douglas Munro, passed away at the age of 88. The oak was used for naval construction. 1973 Due to the draw-down of U.S. forces in South Vietnam the post of Senior Coast Guard Officer, Vietnam, was discontinued. Significantly, the crew supported the relief efforts in response to the earthquake in Haiti in August, conducting two separate port assessments on Haitian ports to ensure the harbors were safe for vessels to deliver vital aid and assistance to the region following the disaster. 1972 BMC (later BMCM) Thomas D. McAdams became the first Coast Guardsmen to receive the new Coxswain insignia. 1944 LCDR Quentin R. Walsh and his commando unit forced the surrender of Fort du Homet, a Nazi stronghold at Cherbourg, France, captured 300 German soldiers and liberated 50 U.S. paratroopers who had been captured on D-Day. Transitioning to its original mission of this patrol, the crew and their two embarked Federated States of Micronesia shipriders conducted boardings of fishing vessels under the FSM-U.S. bilateral fisheries enforcement agreement. 1943 CGC Bodega grounded off the Canal Zone. The suspects, vessel and marijuana were turned over to the Mexican navy. L., 1852). Prop 30 is supported by a coalition including CalFire Firefighters, the American Lung Association, environmental organizations, electrical workers and businesses that want to improve Californias air quality by fighting and preventing wildfires and reducing air pollution from vehicles. The act greatly increased the workload of the shipping commissioners, particularly in providing for the issuance of discharge books and various certificates. 1932 Five members of Station Atlantic City were lost in the line of duty when station personnel responded to the gas screw vessel Anna and a motor boat in distress off Atlantic City. The cutter's fire-fighting teams put the fire out and Morgenthau escorted the damaged freighter to San Francisco. The crew hosted community leaders from Barrow aboard the cutter to discuss the rapidly evolving economic landscape in the Arctic and volunteered during their time ashore to complete several community service projects in the community of Dutch Harbor. By this time, the steamer Hercules, of Philadelphia had come alongside and Darts master arranged for a tow to Vineyard Haven. 1944 Coast Guardsmen participated in the landings at Ormoc, Philippine Islands. The crew of Seneca completed Tailored Ships Training Availability (TSTA), served as a primary Search and Rescue Response asset along the eastern seaboard, and conducted fisheries enforcement boardings from South Carolina to Maine. 1958 During her 50 plus year career, the Huron Lightship WAL-526 at Port Huron, Michigan, survived many a Great Lakes storm without the loss of a single crewmember until on this date when Seaman (Boatswain Mate Striker) Robert G. Gullickson lost his life while attempting to swim for assistance to save another shipmate, CS1 Vincent Disch, after their small boat was swamped by a freighter's wake and sank. The program was first known as the Atlantic Weather Observation Service and later by thousands of Coast Guardsmen who served after World War II as the "Ocean Station" (OS) program. At approximately 12:30 p.m., CGC Charles Sexton arrived on scene and Coast Guard crewmembers were transferred to the freighter and assisted with the dewatering of the vessel. Interestingly, the Menges had been a victim of a German acoustic torpedo during escort-of-convoy operations in the Mediterranean in 1944. A tug was sent out and the schooner was towed to sea. Although no one else showed COVID-19 symptoms, the command, in concert with military and state health officials, took immediate and decisive action to quarantine and test those at risk of exposure. 8, 42 Stat. Using Seneca's flight deck, MSRT members completed 76 vertical insertions and 44 hoists. The Coast Guard, which at that time consisted of 15 cruising cutters, 200 commissioned officers, and 5,000 warrant officers and enlisted men, became part of the U. S. Navy by Executive Order. It consisted of three cutters and a Navy vessel. 1989 The tanker Exxon Valdez grounded on a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 10.1 million gallons of crude oil. Healy conducted their science missions and partnered with the Coast Guard Research and Development Center to evaluate equipment. 1976 The Coast Guard awarded a contract to Tacoma Shipbuilding Company, Inc., of Tacoma, Washington, for the construction of four 140-foot WYTM icebreaking tugs. 1867 The lighthouse at Timbalier Bay was destroyed in a hurricane. The crew of CGC Bertholf, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, and the Navy Research Lab successfully launched two rounds from the Nulka Anti-Ship Missile Defense System. The schooners crew was nearly exhausted from a long spell at the pump. This became the largest Coast Guard operation ever undertaken to date since World War II. Taney departed Midway Island on June 16 and escorted Regulus back to Honolulu. 1953 When the 6,000 ton ore carrier SS Maryland grounded off Marquette, Michigan, a Coast Guard helicopter, in the face of driving wind and rain that required the combined efforts of both pilots to hold the controls and stabilize the aircraft, removed 12 crew members to safety. 1872 Congress ordered that Life-Saving stations were to be erected "under supervision of two captains of the revenue service." 1917 Congress passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Espionage Act, authorizing the Treasury Secretary to assume control of U.S. ports, control ship movements, establish anchorages, and supervise the loading and storage of explosive cargoes. Less than 24 hours later, Dependable, along with Her Majestys Bahamian Ship Leon Livingston Smith rescued 10 Cuban migrants who had been stranded for 10 days on Anguilla Cay near Caysal Bank in the Florida Straits. A period of system acceptance testing was satisfactorily completed and the computer system was then accepted for use by the Coast Guard. The RB-M is a self-righting, 45-foot all-aluminum boat with twin diesel engines and water jet propulsion. She was the only Coast Guard buoy tender sunk by enemy action during the war. Four persons, also adrift, reached a breakwater off shore. 1847 To reduce the expenditures of the Treasury Department, Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker ordered a reduction of the complements on revenue cutters. The structure of this lighthouse was similar to that of Minots Ledge, and its construction was "a notable engineering work.". The Treasury Department labeled their loss "the most disastrous incident of this kind ever recorded in the annals of the Coast Guard, or of either of its forbears, the Revenue-Cutter Service and Life-Saving Service." The freighter began to list on the right side due to the amount of water in the lower compartments. 1974 President Gerald Ford signed into law the first bill of his new administration, a measure authorizing the Coast Guard to adopt modernized boiler and pressure safety standards on board merchant ships. 1943 Choiseul, Treasury Islands landing commenced (Coast Guard-manned LST-71 was in second echelon November 1, 1943). CGC Munro, deployed as part of Expeditionary Strike Group 5 (ESG-5), along with the other units in the Group, responded. On account of distance and frequent heavy rain squalls, she was not sighted by station lookout until 3:30 pm on the following day. The Servia had been captured by an American privateer and Active was ordered to arrest the Servia and return it to Baltimore for examination. Kastner on the Elk River in the upper Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard units assisted state and local agencies in rescue and relief operations. For the Spanish speaker who can navigate the vendors you may can find a good deal dealing direct with a vendor at the harbor but you run a risk of sub par service. CGC Attu delivered relief supplies to Antigua and Barbuda. The crews commendable professionalism and proficiency enabled Diligences successful patrol execution amidst the challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic.. It was removed prior to the vessel being towed to port where it was declared a total loss. 1966 GM1 Lester K. Gates was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with a combat "V" device for "meritorious service and action against the enemy" while serving on board CGC Point White (WPB-82308) in Vietnam. 1978 Mexican authorities requested Coast Guard assistance after severe rainstorms caused significant flooding in Baja. They were: BMC Anthony L. Petit, MoMM 2/c Leonard Pickering, F 1/c Jack Colvin, SN 1/c Dewey Dykstra, and SN 1/c Paul James Ness. 1907 Congress appropriated $30,000 for installing wireless telegraphs on not more than 12 revenue cutters. After a flight of 600 miles, including a winter crossing of the Alaska Peninsula and 400 miles of open water, Guth and her crew rescued four of the six-man crew before waves crashed over the vessel and swept the two remaining crewmen into the frigid water. Enlistments were to be for a three-year period with written agreement to serve on active duty in time of war or national emergency. One hundred forty-five persons were rescued by the Coast Guard and others. On August 1, 1799, Secretary Oliver Wolcott, Jr., prescribed that the " ensign and pennant should consist of "Sixteen perpendicular stripes, alternate red and white, the union of the ensign to be the arms of the United States in dark blue on a white field." Healy and its crew traversed the ice-packed Arctic Ocean to the top of the world, reaching the geographic North Pole on 30 September 2022. All were subsequently assigned to the Navy Department and 15 lighthouse tenders, four lightships, and 21 light stations also were transferred to the Navy Department. LV-82 was commanded by Hugh M. Williams, Master. The entire crew of Acacia was rescued. 1946 Pursuant to Executive Order 9083 and Reorganization Plan No. The Coast Guard posthumously awarded BMCS Horne the Coast Guard Medal for his heroism that night. 1955 CGC Yocona rescued the crew of the sinking fishing vessel Ocean Pride some 50 miles off Cape Lookout, Oregon. 2014 The Coast Guard awarded three firm fixed-price contracts for preliminary and contract design for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) acquisition project. They discovered 3,771 pounds (1.9 tons)aboard the La Toto off the northwest coast of St. Croix. During the next few days the tanker's crew mutinied and seized control of the tanker from the master in a wage dispute. (USLHS AR 1933, p. 97). Bracken would have been drowned had it not been for the skill of BN (L) John F. McCormick, Officer-in-Charge of Triumph, and the cooperation of the crew, namely CMOMM (L) Albert L. Olsen and Surfman Harold W. Lawrence. 1926 The first radio-beacon established in Alaska was placed in commission at Cape Spencer. 1999 For the first time weapons were fired from a Coast Guard HITRON helicopter "to execute the interdiction of a maritime drug smuggler.". This is the first time that a Nulka round has been launched from a Coast Guard cutter. The request byus was to shut the Delaware River down to all traffic due to crude oil on fire extending completely across the Delaware River. Fleet. 1943 CGC E.M. Dow grounded and was abandoned near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The vessel, however, remained afloat and was later towed to Freeport, Bahamas. This tanker had been the victim of a German U-boat attack off the coast of the United States. The search was called off on October 7 after search crews located a deceased person in a survival suit in the water and a heavily damaged life boat with markings consistent with those on board El Faro. V-177, dropped food to a raft with six survivors of a torpedoed tanker in one of hundreds of such incidents carried out by Coast Guard aircraft during the war. The weather quickly deteriorated, however, and they radioed for assistance. 1924 Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act and the enforcement responsibility was assigned to the Coast Guard. 1942 The Coast Guard-manned attack transport USS Hunter Liggett rescued the survivors of the heavy cruisers USS Vincennes, Astoria, and Quincy and the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra that had been sunk the preceding night by Imperial Japanese Navy warships during the Battle of Savo Island. 1966 CGC Point Welcome was attacked in the pre-dawn hours by U.S. Air Force aircraft while on patrol in the waters near the mouth of the Cua Viet River, about three-quarters of a mile south of the Demilitarized Zone (the 17th Parallel) in South Vietnam. 1967 CGC Point Ellis destroyed an enemy trawler in Vietnam. The vessels acquired were the 182-foot stern-wheel propelled river steamers CGC Kankakee and Yocona. They then went ashore and returned with the power lifeboat which towed the schooner safely over the bar. Juniper was assigned to its homeport of Newport, Rhode Island. During the 52-day deployment, Valiant sailed throughout the Windward Passage and the North Caribbean Sea in support of Operation Southeast Watch. Formerly headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it was decommissioned on October 1, 2013. 1900 An Act of Congress (31 Stat. 1989 Sikorsky Aircraft unveiled the replacement for the Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican helicopter: the HH-60J. 1994 Coast Guard HH-65 CG-6541 crashed in the early hours of July 12, 1994 near Shelter Cove, California, while responding to a sailing vessel in distress. They found her pounding heavily and leaking badly. 1989 M/V Aoyagi Maru ran aground on a reef in Lost Harbor, Alaska. The Revenue Cutter Service was tasked with enforcing the law. 1941 CGC Cayuga left Boston with the South Greenland Survey Expedition on board to locate airfields, seaplane bases, radio and meteorological stations, and aids to navigation in Greenland. 1942 The Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet ordered the organization of coastal pickets to combat the "submarine menace" off the Atlantic Coast. "It ranks, by the engineering difficulties surrounding its erection and by the skill and science shown in the details of its construction, among the chief of the great sea-rock lighthouses of the world.". 2001 The first set of the newly authorized Helicopter Rescue Swimmer insignia, or "wings", were presented to the senior rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard, Master Chief Aviation Survival Technician (AST) Keith Jensen, at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C. 1917 An Executive Order extended the jurisdiction of the Lighthouse Service to the non-contiguous territory of the American Virgin Islands. They worked in concert with lifeboats from the Massachusetts Humane Society's Gay Head station. The Coast Guard-manned landing craft LCI(L)s-85, 91, 92, and 93 were lost at the Omaha beachhead that day. A fourth enemy trawler was also sunk, but Coast Guard units were not involved. The reported wounded were William Pritchard (Gunner), John McCoan, Benjamin Chart, George Craft, and William Hunter (Boy). Cutters were dispatched for 30-day patrols to transmit weather observations and serve as a SAR standby for transoceanic aircraft. 1965 Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze asked Secretary of the Treasury Henry Fowler for Coast Guard assistance to combat seaborne infiltration from North Vietnam. Coast Guard Commandant VADM Merlin O'Neill accepted the trophy for the Coast Guard. As a result of this meeting, the principal maritime nations of the world agreed to make an intensive study of the World War II-developed devices of radar, LORAN, radar beacons, and other navigational aids with a view to adapt them to peacetime use. During the 1912 season the following cutters were assigned: Rush, Manning, McCulloch and Tahoma. The HU-25As mark the entry of the Coast Guard into the jet age, and their use will offer the service a mission capability that was not possible with earlier aircraft.". Two of the helicopters were from AIRSTA Brooklyn and two were from AIRSTA Cape Cod. 2020 CGC CAMPBELL was awarded the Arctic Service Medal in honor of their service period of 21 days north of the Arctic Circle, 6633'N, from 16 August 2020 to 12 September 2020. The life-saving crew noticed several vessels running north for safety under bare poles and two of them made safely into the harbor. Six industrial fuel aboard grounded one-half mile offshore from the Brigantine Wildlife Refuge. 1961 After an Air Force B-52G [serial number 58-196??] A newspaper article describing the incident noted: "If Crawford was a person, Miami would have probably seen it blushThe ex-Coast Guard cutter received more publicity for smuggling the drugs than for its 20-year Coast Guard career.". After the situation stabilized, Active and Point Franklin departed while Hornbeam stood by the tanker to monitor the situation and to act as on scene commander; she was relieved on May 29 by Alert. The cutter was christened on November 11, 2006 after being launched on September 29, 2006. 1819 The Revenue cutters Alabama and Louisiana captured the privateer Bravo in the Gulf of Mexico. 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order making 2,100 US Coast Guard officers and men available to man four transports, USS Leonard Wood, Hunter Liggett, Joseph T. Dickman, and Wakefield, along with 22 other ships manned by US Navy personnel. Diligence spent the previous 28 years homeported on Wilmingtons historic downtown Riverwalk, along the bank of the Cape Fear River. This led to the largest increase in the size and responsibilities of the service to date. 1877 The training of first class of Revenue Cutter cadets began on the school-ship Dobbin at Curtis Bay, Maryland, with nine cadets, three officers, one surgeon, six warrant officers, and 17 crew members on board. 1975 The Coast Guard commissioned the Houston-Galveston Vessel Traffic System, the third VTS to be "implemented by the Coast Guard on a major waterway of the U.S.". However "Non sibi sed patriae" (Not Self But Country) is often cited as the Navy's unofficial motto. 1921 A system of longevity increase of pay, after six months service for the un-appointed members of the crews of Light-house Service vessels, was introduced for the first time as a means of maintaining "a more efficient personnel on these vessels.". It took almost three days to get the blaze under control. 1939 On this date, "the Lighthouse Bureau went out of existence and its personnel moved themselves and their equipment to Coast Guard Headquarters from the Commerce Department building. While on a port call in Golfito, Costa Rica, Alert's crew competed against Costa Rican Coast Guard crewmembers in a soccer tournament. Mackinaw's crew worked together with the crew of Canadian Coast Guard Ship Pierre Radisson, home-ported in Quebec City, as part of an ongoing bi-national agreement between the U.S. and Canada, to break sheet ice that was nearly 40 inches thick. 1968 While en route from Apia, Western Samoa to Pago Pago, Polynesian Airlines Flight 5WFAA sighted the wreckage of an overturned vessel and reported it to the Federal Aviation Agency Flight Service at Tafuna, American Samoa. He sounded the alarm and "a boat at once shot out from the station, and reached the men in time to save them. of cocaine, ten suspected smugglers, and 96 migrants from other U.S. Coast Guard cutters operating in the region. 1942 CGC Nike rescued 38 persons from SS China Arrow which had been torpedoed off Ocean City, Maryland. The Coast Guard team was in fact the Destroyer Force football team of New London, Connecticut which had been "nationalized" to represent the entire service. 1944 Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasions of Eniwetok and Engebi, Marshall Island. 1808 Subsistence for Army officers was fixed at 20 cents per ration and later that year it was applied to all officers of the revenue cutters. 1848 Congress appropriated $10,000 for life saving stations and apparatus between Sandy Hook and Egg Harbor; the first funds to be expended under supervision of Revenue Cutter Service. Overwatch 2 reaches 25 million players, tripling Overwatch 1 daily "Using the new platform, the crew of the HH-52A retrieved the man, helpless and incoherent, from 39-[degree] F waters. The cutter was sponsored by Ms. Jeanmarie Griffin. In 1981, however, new legislation allowed the Secretary of Defense to bring Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps support to civilian authorities in intelligence, equipment, base and research facilities, and related training. Good Samaritans rescued eight crewmembers, but one died of complications, 26 bodies were recovered, and 26 crewmembers were reported missing. This sinking and consequent loss of life contributed to the establishment of a permanent rescue swimmer program for the Coast Guard. They departed their station in their pulling surfboat but the boat capsized a number of times in the icy water, eventually causing the six surfmen to perish from hypothermia. With her sails iced up and splitting, she was in need of assistance. The first 58 were made possible because of the light from a small handheld searchlight from positions of peril among chimneys, television antennas, and trees. There were 1,517 lost including 103 women and 53 children out of total passenger and crew of 2,207. 2021CGC Healy (WAGB 20) departed Seattle on 10 July 2021, for a months-long Arctic deployment and circumnavigation of North America. 2020 The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Mellon (WHEC 717) returned to their homeport of Seattle on July 7, 2020,after completing the final patrol for the 52-year-old ship. For this rescue Hanna was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal. 1980 Coast Guard forces narrowly averted an environmental disaster when the 300-foot barge Michelle F, with more than 2.8 million gallons of No. The investigation began in October of 1994 when Coast Guard officials noticed an oil slick behind the ship Sovereign of the Seas as it approached San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2019Coast Guard Air Station ClearwaterMH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews, forward deployed to Andros Island,conducted medical evacuations in support of search and rescue and humanitarian aidin the Bahamas. The keeper ordered a close watch on the schooner, in case she should signal for assistance. (See March 3, 1847). Charles E. Sugden, USCG, commanded the Naval Air Station at Ile Tudy, France, and was later awarded the French Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. There have been ongoing bans in many communities on the The President assigned the enforcement of those laws to the Revenue Marine, thereby establishing the service's close connection with Alaska. The Republic of Korea reported the 501 Oryong, with 60 crewmembers, was hauling in its catch when a wave hit and flooded the vessel's storage chambers with seawater. Revenue Cutter Captain Loomis was quoted as writing: "I arrived here [Belize] after a short cruise of 20 days on the 17th [of July, 1820]. 1909 At Assateague Beach, Virginia, the schooner Charley C. Weaver began taking on water. Following the initial search of a suspect vessel by a boarding team from USS Kauffman, HMCS Goose Bay was tasked to conduct an additional inspection. The Chinese nationals were repatriated to China and nine of the crewmen were sent to Indonesia. The crew weathered 10-foot seas and 30 mph winds to transport members from the Army National Guard, Mobil Oil's disaster and spill response team, the U.S. 1990 CGC Mellon fired a Harpoon anti-ship missile in a live-fire test, becoming the first cutter to fire the missile. As additional PBYs became available, the unit's area of operation expanded and detachments were established in Argentia, Newfoundland and Reykjavik, Iceland, furnishing air cover for Navy and Coast Guard vessels. 1854 Congress authorized the appointment of the first lifeboat station keepers at $200 per year each and superintendents for Long Island and New Jersey serving under Secretary of Treasury who "may also establish such stations at such lighthouses, as, in his judgment, he shall deem best.". 1898 About 8 p.m., the keeper of the Galveston life-saving station, Edward Haines, was notified by one of the crew of a quarantine boat that cries for help were heard coming from the channel opposite the station. The operational intent was the protection of the sovereign rights of the U.S. and the promotion of international maritime norms through Coast Guard presence and influence in this increasingly strategic and competitive region. These repatriations were a result of three separate interdictions of people attempting to illegally migrate to the United States. .There were about 35 persons in all on board; of this number about 10 were on the quarter deck and in the cabin; part of them employed in cleaning the arms. 1909 Stations Holly Beach and Hereford Inlet, New Jersey: the schooner C.B. Nantucket I also spent time in service as a "less-than-speedy" law enforcement vessel off Florida. Talks to bring CEE to Cleveland began in the fall of 2013 with cooperation between the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, and other government agencies. There were no serious casualties. As he closed the beach, he [signaled] the others to land, and then in order to draw the enemy's fire and protect the heavily loaded boats, he valiantly placed his craft with its two small guns as a shield between the beachhead and the Japanese. Philip B. Eaton, USCG, commanded Chatham Naval Air Station and he piloted one of two HS-1 seaplanes that attempted to bomb and machine gun a surfaced U-boat off the coast of New England after the U-boat had shelled a tug and barges four miles off Cape Cod. 2003 Administrative control of the Coast Guard transferred to the newly created Department of Homeland Security from the Department of Transportation, where it had served since April 1, 1967. So he rowed out to the schooner in a small boat and piloted her clear. The Coast Guard offered to assist the Kamchatka Border Guard Directorate and the Republic of Korea with their search for survivors and deployed the following assets: CGCs Munro, Alex Haley, HC-130s from Air Station Kodiak, and two SAR planners from Juneau deployed to Anchorage to work with South Korean Navy P-3 aircrews. Marshal Service, and the Commonwealth Utility Corporation. She was deployed to the Adriatic Sea in support of Operation Allied Force and Operation Noble Anvil, NATO's military campaign against the forces of the former Republic of Yugoslavia. 1934 Coast Guard pilot CDR Elmer F. Stone set the world record for amphibian airplane speed. They then took off the two remaining men of her crew, together with the man taken on board, and regained the shore in safety. On 1 Aug 1988 Borregoearned promotionto YNC, becoming first Hispanic-American woman service member to advance to E-7. 1881 A rowboat with two men and a young girl was going down the Manistee River towards the harbor. The boarding team executed several boarding and approach and visit operations, and the ships executive team provided valuable data about the maritime traffic in and around the Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, strengthening CTF-150s understanding of the maritime picture in the area. The Coast Guard Pacific Area command center received confirmation from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority that both ships broke through the heavy ice, rendering assistance from the Polar Star no longer necessary. She began to struggle violently and dragged him under. Goodwin called Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon the next day and Dillon ordered the Academy "to scrutinize the Academy's recruitment policy to make sure it did not discriminate against blacks.". 1963 Pier 7 at Tacoma, Washington was engulfed in flames. 1986 Rains began in northern California that lasted for a week, causing severe flooding. Bertholf s boarding teams conducted joint interdiction operations with Chilean and Mexican forces, boarding simulated rogue merchant vessels to seize smuggled weapons of mass destruction components as part of an international task force. On September 21, 2015 Campbell responded to a report of a sea turtle entangled in fishing gear. Much of her cargo was offloaded before she was successfully refloated. 2014 CGC Rush returned to its homeport of Honolulu, Hawaii, following a successful 72-day deployment in the Central and Western Pacific. An ebook (short for electronic book), also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. (This authority was revoked March 3, 1845). On our way to the sanctuary I researched & found admission was $17 each AND had to be purchased prior to our arrival. 1894 The Treasury Department created the Division of Revenue Cutter Service with Captain of the Revenue Cutter Service as its Chief. While going out over the bar, the wind being light, she had been carried by the strong ebb tide on to the shoal. The Republic of Korea vessel Sam-Bong arrived at the 501 Oryong's last known position and began their investigation. He and six other coalition sailors attempted to board a small boat near the Iraqi Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal. Beginning in late-September of that year the first of 24 women chosen for afloat assignments began reporting on board the CGCs Gallatin and Morgenthau as members of their permanent crew. Finally, at noon, November 21, with CGC Northland having joined the chase, the captain of the freighter allowed a boarding team to come aboard where they discovered 516 migrants. 1911 President William Howard Taft proclaimed the Convention entered into between the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia for the preservation of the fur seal and the sea otter. PSU 303 was stationed in Al-Dammam, Saudi Arabia. 1924 In an effort to increase the number of cutters available for Prohibition enforcement, Navy destroyers were transferred to the Coast Guard for law enforcement purposes. 1952 SS Pennsylvania broadcasted that she had sustained a 14-foot crack in her port side. 1917 The United States declared war on Germany and joined the Allied Powers in World War I. These Coast Guardsmen were part of a specially trained boarding party sent to board the submarine to seize any code and cipher related documents andequipment they could find. The Act provided for the appointment, by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, of nine supervising inspectors. He was awarded a Gold Life-Saving Medal for his heroic action. This operation was a counterpart to the counter-narcotics Operation Frontier Shield. 1942 CGC Ingham rescued eight survivors from the torpedoed SS Tennessee. 1983 The Coast Guard retired the last operational HU-16E Albatross, ending the "era of seaplanes" for the service. Congress overrode his veto on March 3, 1845. This was the largest single disaster suffered by the Coast Guard in World War II. 1905 Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire a suitable site in the state of Maryland upon which to establish a depot for the Revenue Cutter Service; this station became the Coast Guard Yard. The units involved were the Navy fast frigate USS Ouellet with a Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment from the CGC Jarvis embarked, the CGC Mallow, and an AIRSTA Barbers Point HC-130. Hayden grounded northeast of Station Point Judith. 1938 CGC Bibb reported for duty in connection with the U.S. Navy exercises held off Culebra, Puerto Rico. 1916 An Act of Congress (39 Stat. The OPC would fill Coast Guard and DHS offshore mission requirements and provide capabilities between the Coast Guards Fast Response Cutter and National Security Cutter, while replacing the aging 210-foot and 270-foot medium endurance cutters. A Coast Guard boarding team took samples of her cargo and matched it to that found along the coast. 1991 A high personnel retention level led the Commandant, ADM J. William Kime, to begin implementing a high-year tenure program, otherwise known as an "up or out" policy to "improve personnel flow and opportunities for advancement." 153) that limited the number of immigrants annually who could be admitted to the U.S.to two percent of the number of people from that country who were already living in the U.S. in 1890. Departing on January 20, 2013, Waesche completed an 18,000-mile patrol in support of joint counter-drug operations off the coast of California and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. 1819 The March 23, 1819 edition of the New York Evening Post reported: "The Artegan Privateer GENERAL ARTIGAS was yesterday brought into this port. The surf, however, was so heavy that they failed to get alongside the barge and they were obliged to return. A list of certified laboratories are available from your state or local drinking water authority. Campbell illuminated the U-boat with a spotlight and the gunners continued to fire into the submarine's conning tower and hull. During the cutters spring 2012 patrol, Jarvis served as the on-scene commander for an aircraft that crashed off the coast of Palau, and coordinated the search and rescue efforts to save two lives. The ship eventually broke in two and her bow section was towed to sea and sunk by the Navy. 1875 Captain Lucien M. Clemens and his brothers Al and Hubbard "displayed the most signal gallantry in saving two men from the wreck of the schooner Consuelo" in an open rowboat. 1994 CGC Munro responded to a mayday from the Greek-registered 798-foot container ship Hyundai Seattle approximately 550 nautical miles south of Adak, Alaska. 1956 CGC Casco saved 21 persons from a U.S. Navy seaplane that was forced to ditch 100 miles south of Bermuda. 1881 The light was first shown at Tillamook Lighthouse, located 19 miles south of the Columbia River entrance. The helicopters searched the surrounding area to ensure that no others were adrift. Ultimately five Coast Guard crewman, all from MLB CG-52301 Triumph, drowned, as did both of the Mermaid's crew. This, combined with the strong current and considerable undertow, exhausted Chief Petty Officer Evans. The Coast Guard coordinated a three-wave operation. 1968 The Coast Guard's Merchant Marine Detachment-Saigon was formally established at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. After making preliminary plans for the evacuation of nearly 500 beleaguered Marines, Munro, under constant risk of his life, daringly led five of his small craft toward the shore. 1819 USRC Active captured the pirate vessel Irresistible in the Chesapeake Bay. These three cutters were relieved of "garbage duty" in June by the cutters Snohomish and Chinook. The life-saving crew at once turned to and pumped her out and made temporary repairs on the sails, and then worked her up into a safe harbor. Beyond these objectives, we will continue to build upon our Services long heritage of leadership in the Arctic, working with Federal, state, local and territorial partners to ensure maritime governance in the region.. As Im Alone was sunk, the captains statement that her engines were in need of repair also could not be proven. This pioneer use of radio had indeed proved Its worth in rescue operations.". The cutter shuttled more than 80 tons of humanitarian relief supplies from Singapore to USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), also part of ESG-5, for distribution to the victims of the tsunami. 1977 The Coast Guard commissioned AIRSTA Sitka. The 281-foot tankship was breaking in half in high seas and sinking approximately eight miles ESE of Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, with seven POB. 1986 CGC Manitou stoppedthe 125-foot Sun Bird in 7th District waters and her boarding team discovered 40,000 pounds of marijuana hidden aboard. 1938 The US Coast Guard motor lifeboat Triumph departed from the Point Adams Station, located near Hammond, Oregon at the mouth of the Columbia River. Other units included personnel from Station Port Canaveral, air stations Miami, Clearwater, and Savannah, as well as Coast Guard reservists and Auxiliarists. 34, Fourth District, New Jersey, discovered a vessel ashore on the south bar at Townsends Inlet, NJ about three miles south of the station and a mile offshore. 2014 CGC Alex Haley returned to Kodiak following a successful 68-day deployment patrolling more than 12,000 miles throughout the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. The formation for service in Vietnam of Coast Guard Squadron One (RONONE) was announced. 1946 The number of Coast Guardsmen on active duty had been dropped to 22,156 in order to meet budgetary requirements. 1984 The tanker Cepheus ran aground near Anchorage, Alaska, on the morning of January 21, 1984, spilling 180,000 gallons of jet fuel into Cook Inlet. 1908 The Revenue Cutter Service became the primary federal agency in charge of patrolling regattas. 2003 CGC Wrangell and the USS Firebolt, with embarked Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 406, escorted the first commercially transported humanitarian aid shipment into the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. On 8 September, the cutter pulled into U.S. Coast Guard Base Miami Beach and offloaded 7,833 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $148 million. The collision, with an explosion that shook Tampa Bay and shot a fireball hundreds of feet into the air, involved the tug Seafarer, pushing its 546-foot barge Ocean 255, which was laden with 235,000 barrels of petroleum products; the tug Fred Bouchard and its barge, B-155, which carried 122,000 barrels of oil; and the 357-foot Philippine-registered freighter Balsa 37, which was carrying 6,000 metric tons of phosphate material. 2015 CGC Stratton seized a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel carrying more than 16,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. 1938 The Coast Guard assumed responsibility for the Maritime Service. Plans were put into effect, "Providing for a complete integration with the Coast Guard of the personnel of the Lighthouse Service numbering about 5,200, together with the auxiliary organization of 64 buoy tenders, 30 depots, and 17 district offices.". The helicopter, commanded by LCDR Warren S. Petterson, located the fishing vessel in heavy surf and commenced "Operation Tugbird" by lowering a tow cable to Pirate II. The missile fell harmlessly in the Mediterranean and there were no casualties. In addition, 11 suspected narcotic smugglers were taken into custody and were transferred to the offices of the United States Attorneys for prosecution. Life rafts and emergency equipment, meanwhile, were airdropped, and the helicopters from the aircraft carrier Valley Forge successfully removed the 28 survivors from the still floating stern section. 1938 The Lighthouse Service Radio Laboratory was moved from the shops of the lighthouse depot in Detroit, Michigan, "to the Lazaretto Lighthouse Depot in Baltimore, Md., where a building had been constructed providing more adequately for this important branch of the work of the Service.". During this operational patrol, Strattons law enforcement crews seized and disrupted 6.6 tons of illegal narcotics valued in excess of $27.5 Million. Thirty-two women were in the initial group and formed Recruit Company Sierra-89. Coast Guardunits consisting of 500 Coast Guardsmen fought the fires and cleaned up the resulting oil spill. L., 1380). 1916 Second Lieutenant Russell R. Waesche was designated as the first Communications Officer for the Coast Guard, an office established at Coast Guard Headquarters. 1946 The Coast Guard, which had operated as a service under the Navy since November 1, 1941, was returned to the Treasury Department, pursuant to Executive Order 9666, dated December 28, 1945. The pumps were manned to keep the water down. 1866 Congress authorized officers to search vessels and persons suspected of concealing contraband. Subsequently, when the Secretary submitted the report of these two naval officers and asked that a board be appointed to consider thoroughly the matter of lighthouse improvements. 1839 Congress directed that Revenue Captain Ezekial Jones, commanding the revenue cutter Washington in the Seminole War, be allowed the same pay as a lieutenant in the Navy would receive for like services. The LST was later salvaged. Each year the buoy is set in the spring, marking the historic location of the event, and is then removed in the fall. Coast Guard air assets from AIRSTA Clearwater arrived on scene and, along with Air Force units, rescued the ship's captain and her 27 crewmen. This was the final ocean station patrolled by a Coast Guard cutter. Coast Guard aircraft rescued the rigs 18-man crew safely on December 29 and delivered spare engine parts to Aiviq. Surfmen shifted her cargo of oysters. This was the first rotary-wing aircraft-shipboard landing by Coast Guard personnel. 1994 The last HH-3F Pelican helicopter in Coast Guard service was retired. Arctic Shield capability assessments included the deployment of a vessel of opportunity skimming system aboard the cutter SPAR and a Canadian coast guard vessel. The keeper pulled off his outer clothing, swam out, caught the father and daughter as they were sinking for the third time, and succeeded in bringing them to the dock where they were helped up by the rest of the crew. The U.S. Coast Guard Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) Project sponsored equipment on the satellite to test the feasibility and effectiveness of AIS message reception and reporting from space for ship tracking and other navigational activities. 1863 Revenue cutter Agassiz helped defend the Union-held Fort Anderson at New Bern, North Carolina, from a Confederate attack. With an assist from the Polynesian airliner, the cutter located the disabled fishing vessel named Main Sun No.2 and found 17 survivors clinging to the overturned hull. By his outstanding leadership, expert planning, and dauntless devotion to duty, he and his courageous comrades undoubtedly saved the lives of many who otherwise would have perished. 1985 Vice President George Bush paid an official visit to the officers and crew of CGC Steadfast while the cutter was in Nassau, Bahamas. These exercises included shipboard emergency response, navigation proficiency, and live-fire gunnery exercises. 1952 Immediately following the crash of a commercial overseas transport aircraft off the San Juan Harbor, Coast Guard forces coordinated with those of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy to rescue 17 of the 69 persons on board. At the fourth attempt Captain Napier and his three assistants were thrown out of the boat by a furious surge and one of his legs was badly hurt. 2014 The Coast Guard concluded Arctic Shield 2014 after a successful season that included deployments of personnel and assets to the Seward Peninsula, Bering Strait, and the Northern Alaska Continental Shelf to conduct a broad range of Coast Guard statutory missions. In January 2014, Polar Star departed Sydney to assist in the rescue effort of two ships, the Russian vessel Akademik Shokalsiky and the Chinese vessel Xue Lon. Surfmen proceeded to the scene, carried out an anchor and line, and hove the schooner into deep water. The search party then departed, as if the search were ended, but 45 minutes later they boarded the vessel once more, lined up the crew in the mess hall, and searched them and the ship again. 1943 Lieutenant Ross P. Bullard and Boatswain's Mate First Class C. S. "Mike" Hall boarded the U-175 at sea after their cutter, CGC Spencer, blasted the U-boat to the surface with depth charges when it attempted to attack the convoy Spencer was escorting. 1897 The American steamer Business Point mistook a buoy and stranded on Mouse Island reef, nine miles northwest of Point Marblehead Life-Saving station. In mid-October while sailing the passage between Cuba and Mexico, Spencers crew rescued 24 passengers from a disabled vessel that was caught in 12-15-foot seas. Alex Haley, known as the Bulldog of the Bering, departed Kodiak in July 2014 and spent two months conducting operations in the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands. 1999 The small cruise vessel Wilderness Adventurer ran aground in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. The units included a HC-130, two helicopters, and CGCs Cape Corwin, Mallow and Sassafras. See Details. "This action was in keeping with the Commandant's most recent program of placing women in afloat assignments" on CGCs Morgenthau and Gallatin. Upon reaching the victim, Chief Petty Officer Evans held the frightened child above water. Absecon launched a small boat and rescued all of the merchant vessel's crew. 2015 CGC Healy returned to its homeport of Seattle after completing four months of Arctic operations. 1944 CGC Northland captured the crew of a scuttled Nazi supply trawler off Greenland. 1981 CGC Morgenthau, in "Charlie" status in San Francisco while preparing for a yard period, responded to a distress call from the 610-foot M/V Blue Hawk, a cargo vessel carrying about 5,000 automobiles, after she reported a fire aboard while she was over 700 miles southwest of San Diego. The seized contraband was worth an estimated $227 million. Coast Guard HH-19G helicopter CGNR-1309 was dispatched to assist. 1909 Race Point, Massachusetts: The sloop Keewaydin IVs mast was carried away and the sloop anchored 2 miles SW of station, but dragged ashore. 1990 PSU 301 became the second reserve Coast Guard port security unit deployed in support of Operation Desert Shield. The Moccasin and seine continued to search until dark. Since the speed of the suspect vessel is a consideration in determining how far out it might be seized, it should be noted that Im Alone managed to stay ahead of Wolcott, a nearly new cutter capable of at least 11 knots, for over 24 hours. The Coast Guard also investigated the accident. 1929 CGC Itasca slid down the ways of the General Engineering and Drydock Company in Oakland, California. 1819 The Revenue cutter Dallas seized a vessel laden with lumber that had been unlawfully cut from public land in what was one of the first, if not the very first, recorded instances of a revenue cutter enforcing an environmental law. The satellite attained a proper orbit was expected to start transmitting operational data within the next three months. The Coast Guard and partner agencies operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean near Central and South America have seized more cocaine in the last 10 months than in fiscal years 2012 through 2014 combined. The weather was bitter cold, with a gale from the northwest. Pushed before the storm, the ship lost all sails and drifted almost 100 miles before it ran aground about two miles south of the Pea Island Lifesaving Station. Each of the women chosen were volunteers. Over the course of nearly a week, Mellon launched its attached MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and crew up to four times a day and covered more than 26,000 square miles of ocean while searching for the lost sailor. The consumer in the most inland State derives the same advantagethat he does who lives in a maritime State.". The legal background for the Coast Guard security program stems from the Magnuson Act, which authorized the President to issue rules safeguarding vessels and waterfront facilities when he found security endangered by a subversive activity. Tahoma's crew put the vessel in tow and safety and transferred it to a Coast Guard Station Brant Point motor life boat. 2014 The first Alenia C-27J to complete the Coast Guards regeneration process arrived at the C-27J Asset Project Office in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where it was to be used to train and qualify Coast Guard aircrew and maintenance personnel, as well as develop flight and maintenance procedures for Coast Guard-specific mission profiles. On May 16, MSO St. Louis closed all 366 miles of the Missouri River to all traffic. She was officially credited with saving 13 persons during her distinguished career with the U.S. Lighthouse Service "and it is understood that the number was probably much greater.". The fourteen migrants aboard were then safely removed from the vessel. 1996 While on leave, Coast Guardsman Kevin S. DeGroot rescued 12 people who had been thrown into the water when their boat capsized. Two of her crew were killed by near misses. 2021 CGC Munro (WMSL 755) and crew returned to their Alameda, California homeport after a 102-day, 22,000 nautical mile deployment to the Western Pacific. All three were then pulled back through the surf by the crew on the beach. 1992 CGC Storis' 3-inch/.50 caliber main battery was removed from the cutter. On this date, Third Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone reported to Pensacola Naval Air Station for flight training. 1876 The first ever examination for Revenue Cutter cadets was held in Washington, D.C. 1965 Division 13, Coast Guard Squadron One (RONONE) was established for service in Vietnam. Watchstanders from the Coast Guard 7th District Command Center directed HMS Argyll to intercept and conduct a boarding of the vessel. A lifeboat from Campbell then towed them alongside the cutter where the survivors were assisted aboard by a rescue party in a rubber lifeboat. 2014 CGB Eagle began the first phase of a four-year project to extend the cutters service life and recapitalize major ship systems at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland. 1982 Navy Secretary John Lehman testified before Congress on behalf of the Coast Guard. 1870 Congress directed that the revenue cutters on the northern and northwestern lakes, when commissioned, shall be specially charged with aiding vessels in distress on the lakes. A Coast Guard relief detail of boats, men, and aircraft participated in relief assistance measures, cooperating with the Red Cross and civil authorities. Constitutional government. We were first on scene and I called back to base giving the update. [Taken from the New York Gazette-New York Post, dated August 12, 1817.]. She then returned to action. I have succeeded in taking four more Pirates, which I have now in confinementI have about $4,000 worth of dry goods which they have robbed and were endeavoring to smuggle into the United States. Under the Presidents Reorganization Plan No. These items were greatly needed due to the sheer isolation and remoteness of Pagan, which houses only seven permanent residents and is 170 miles north of Saipan, the closest inhabited island with modern amenities. The 50-person crew participated in several significant regional operations to further enhance U.S. and international efforts in the protection of the ecologically and economically valuable fish stocks of the Pacific Ocean and participated in a number of multi-national operations, including Operation Kuru Kuru, which was a multinational operation orchestrated by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency. In extremely heavy seas, the tow line parted and Aiviq requested Coast Guard assistance. Both of these vessels were beset in 15 feet of sea ice near Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. Between the day Coast Guard officials first boarded the ship and when they again boarded it four days later, crewmen had removed a bypass pipe which they had been using to dump hazardous material from the ship. The crew made temporary repairs. 2303, and its crew, which were diverted to the scene from a routine training flight. 1852 Congress passed the Steamboat Act which established the Steamboat Inspection Service under the control of the Treasury Department (10 Stat. This was the first statute authorizing activities in the field of maritime safety, thus interjecting the national government into the field of lifesaving for the first time. Many more stations and depots were severely damaged as well. The tug soon towed her into the harbor. Port of entry, under the jurisdiction of a Collector of Customs, were designated by the Act, and the organization would come to be known as the U.S. Customs Service. The Coast Guard mobilized 14% of its total workforce, active duty and reserve, and its role expanded under the National Contingency Plan which called for the service to direct all response efforts to contain and clean up the oil spill. 1938 The first low power, unattended "secondary" radio aid to navigation was established at St. Ignace, Michigan. 2015 The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards commenced Operation Coal Shovel seasonal domestic ice breaking operations in the southern part of Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair and Detroit River systems, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. A HC-130 was first on the scene and stood by the listing freighter until HH-3s from Air Station Cape Cod arrived and saved the freighter's entire 37-person crew. Witnesses had seen a wave wash one of the boys away but two were apparently trapped near the lighthouse at the end of the pier. Casco was outfitted for oceanographic research by the addition of a laboratory space, hydrographic winch, and other instruments. The Strategy emphasized that although the Coast Guard performs "diverse maritime missions over vast geographic areas" the Coast Guard's primary operating area "will remain in the Western hemisphere.". A boarding team seized the trawler after they discovered 15-tons of marijuana aboard. 2001 Coast Guard units and local agencies responded to a bridge collision on the Intracoastal Waterway after the tug Brown Water V and its four barges struck the Queen Isabella Causeway, the longest bridge in Texas. The cutter sank at its anchorage. The shipping channel was used by the tanker ship Maersk Peary to deliver approximately three-and-a-half million gallons of fuel to McMurdo. 1867 As ordered by the Treasury Department, each officer of Revenue Cutter Service, while on duty, was entitled to one Navy ration per day. . At this hour the wind came out west and the work had to be abandoned. During that conflict the service had acquired larger cutters with more numerous crews. Coast Guard manned transports, including the USS Hunter Liggett, participated in the invasion. 1946 The U .S. The LORAN project was code-named "Tight Reign.". It was shipped to Curtis Bay where is was made inoperable and then loaned to a VFW club. The same service was rendered later in the day by two of the station men to the schooner Willis Smith of South Haven. While on patrol in the eastern Pacific in late February, the crew successfully interdicted a 30-foot fishing vessel that was carrying 1,100 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the vessel. 1943 The invasion of Bougainville, Solomon Islands, commenced. Sixteen Coast Guard-manned vessels and seven other Navy vessels with partial Coast Guard crews took part in the offensive. 1916 The beginning of lighthouse work in the United States was commemorated, when a bronze tablet was unveiled at the Boston Light Station on the 200th anniversary of its establishment. 1937 Effective this date, the dividing point between the 6th and 7th Lighthouse Districts on the east coast of Florida was moved northward from Hillsboro Inlet to St. Lucie Inlet to place the new trans-Florida waterway (through Lake Okeechobee) under one jurisdiction. He spent over two years in the hospital recovering from his injuries. 1898 Lieutenants David Jarvis and Ellsworth P. Bertholf and Surgeon Dr. Samuel J. Dallas also visited several ports not normally seen by Coast Guard crews, including Rota, Spain; Souda Bay, Crete; Haifa, Israel; and Antayla, Turkey. 1995 A request from the Commander in Chief of Naval Forces Europe led to the deployment of CGC Dallas to the Mediterranean. 1985 The largest cocaine seizure by the Coast Guard (to date) was made when Coast Guard units seized the Goza Now with 1,909 pounds of cocaine. ", 1939 "Lightships were maintained on 30 stations during the year. Coast Guard officers commanded one of the assault groups that landed troops on Omaha Beach that morning. He was born two months premature and weighed 3.5 pounds upon birth. 1909 At Gloucester, Massachusetts, a launch became disabled 3/4-mile southeast of the life-saving station. The spill was successfully contained and the vessel salvaged. The mariners were trapped in a heavy pack ice near Cape Burks, Antarctica, for almost two weeks. All 28 crew were rescued and delivered safely to Christmas Island, Kiribati. You will advise the Commander of the Revenue Cutter 'Tiger' of this decision of the Attorney General, and direct him to conform to it in all future examinations of vessels engaged in the coasting trade. He was taken from the water and landed on Barren Island. The board's creation led to a number of important changes in the way ocean and coastal navigation was administered. 1970 Simas I. Kudirka, a Lithuanian seaman, attempted to defect from his Soviet fishing vessel to CGC Vigilant. 1915 President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the "Act to Create the Coast Guard," an act passed by Congress on January 20, 1915 that combined the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard (38 Stat. Also during the patrol, Spencer responded to a distress call from the S/V Alien I, 300 nautical miles offshore. 1944 The Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS Joyce, along with her sister warship USS Peterson and a Navy DE sank the German submarine U-550 off New York. Comanche and Magnolia successfully removed all 43 survivors from the disabled Kokoku Maru, all of whom were subsequently delivered safely ashore. 2003 Three Iraqi sailors were captured in the northern Persian Gulf, the first Enemy Prisoners of War (EPOWs) taken by Coast Guard forces deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 1968 M/V Johannes Frans, a 634-foot Dutch tanker with a cargo of oil, reported that it was disabled in 10 to 15-foot seas and was taking on water 250 miles northeast of Bermuda. As the crew was obliged to work from a point of land so narrow that they could not spread sufficiently to keep the lines apart, they twisted. He reported at the station at once and the vessel was boarded by the life-saving crew within an hour and a half. 2015 CGC Sequoia returned to Guam following a 25-day deployment in the Western Pacific Ocean in support of fisheries enforcement and humanitarian efforts. Escanaba, in conjunction with Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, a 270-foot cutter home-ported in Kittery, Maine, pursued two go-fast vessels and assisted in two multi-agency interdictions resulting in the detention of eight suspected drug smugglers and 1,300 pounds of cocaine, valued at $16 million. The arresting officer was ENS S.T. 1968 CGC Southwind departed Baltimore, Maryland for a seven-month deployment to Antarctica and other world-wide destinations. Twenty-three of her crew were rescued. The President had decided "to ascertain by personal observation whether some further vigilance and vigor might not be infused into the operations of the Army and Navy" during General George McClellan's Peninsula campaign. 1898 USRC Hudson towed the crippled USS Winslow from certain destruction under the Spanish forts at Cardenas, Cuba during the Spanish-American War. 1995 CGC Ida Lewis was launched, the first of the new 175-foot Keeper class buoy tenders. Mellon was one the last remaining 378-foot high endurance cutters built for extended offshore patrols. This first Allied invasion in the Pacific proved to be a critical battle. The cutter and its crew of transported them to Fort Sumter and back. A total of sixteen 225-foot WLBs were built by Marinette Marine Corporation for the Coast Guard. The U-371 had torpedoed the Coast Guard-manned USS Menges the previous day. 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