Earlier we noted that the Coast Guard Compass is posting a series of short histories highlighting the namesakes of the first fourteen Fast Response Cutters. We provided links to the first four in two previous postings:
Two more were linked in comments on a previous post:
Since then, they have posted three more:
For more information on the Cutter COMANCHE and her efforts to rescue the survivors of the Transport DORCHESTER which resulted in the death of Charles Walter David, Jr. go here.
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They’ve got a link to the wrong Comanche in David’s story. Should be the 165 A class cutter, not the tug. See: http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Comanche1934.asp
Thanks, I made an addition to the post to direct those interested to the right URL.
In fact there is still a 165A class preserved as a memorial in Florida:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Mohawk_%28WPG-78%29
Apparently there is a movie in the works about the rescue that made Bernard C. Webber famous.
http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27713&Itemid=34
Nice story about the commissioning of USCGC William Flores (WPC-1103):
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/fulfilling-a-promise-the-commissioning-of-coast-guard-cutter-william-flores/
Kathleen Moore would be a more appropriate namesake for a buoy tender not a patrol cutter. Unfortunately, the Coast Guard chose to name buoy tenders after women who were no more than any other wickie of their respective eras. I never thought longevity was an ample reason to be used as a namesake. The naming of cutters in the RCS and Coast Guard has always been politicized but in recent years it has gone to extremes.
I think we are still doing better than the Navy. Have seen some terrible examples lately.
I think cutters should be named for either Medal of Honor recipients, Distinguish service cross and hereo’s in the US Coast Guard
THE USCG has one MOH winner. And some of these medals came after some of our heroes lived.
As Bill Wells would tell us, during the early days when MOH were given out much more freely, the RCS and other CG progenitors were not considered eligible. Otherwise there would have been several from the Spanish American War and probably the Civil War.
There are still lots or war time heroes, but it is good to recognize the peacetime heroes too.
Chuck,
I agree their are many qualities that make up the Coast Guard because of the diversity of service we provide. We cannot have a single measurement for what is a hero in the USCG.
I’ve added two more entries to the Heritage page:
55 Coast Guardsmen Awarded the Navy Cross, with citations
Twelve CG recipients of the Silver Star, Vietnam War, with citations
The entries are linked to the source pages
Those who earned the Silver Star, MOH, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross & Air force cross should be eligible to have a ship/cutter/boat named for them. It would the right thing to do in honoring & recognizing the sacrifice and what they did. How many cutters besides the USCGC Munro are named after Silver Star, MOH, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross & Air force cross recipients
I’m hoping that the Offshore Patrol Cutters will continue the pattern we have seen in the NSC and FRC in naming the vessels after CG heroes, including those you mention, but also including others like Jarvis, who lead the overland relief expedition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Relief_Expedition) and
Frank H. Newcomb (http://www.aug.edu/~libwrw/others/Hudson/hudson.htm) who commanded the Hudson and was not included in the regular military award system.
Let’s hope so too. I think it would be a good idea to name all the OPC’s to those who earned the Silver Star, MOH, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross & Air force cross. It wouldn’t even help to name some OPC’s to the hero’s of the USCG and those who made a difference in the USCG.
Story of the man USCGC Clarence Sutphin (WPC-1147) is to be named for: https://compass.coastguard.blog/2020/06/19/the-long-blue-line-bm1-sutphin-attack-transport-wood-and-bloody-saipan/