Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso

October 14

1801  Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin announced his decision to reduce the “Revenue Cutter Establishment…as near as circumstances will permit within its original limits” after the Quasi-War with France.  During that conflict the service had acquired larger cutters with more numerous crews.

Photo of EM DOW’s sister cutter EM ROWE

1943  CGC E.M. Dow grounded and was abandoned (in a category 2 hurricane) near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. All hands were saved.

Callao (IX-205) as the armed German Naval Auxiliary vessel Externsteine off Greenland after being captured by the Coast Guard in October 1944. US Coast photo

1944  CGCs Eastwind and Southwind captured the Nazi weather and supply vessel Externsteine off the coast of Greenland after a brief fire-fight (three salvos from its 5″/38 guns one short, one over and one across the bow–no return fire from Externsteine).  There were no casualties.  The Coast Guardsmen christened their prize-of-war USS Eastbreeze and placed a prize crew on board.  The prize crew was commanded by LT Curtiss Howard and consisted of 36 men, including some from Southwind.  After sailing with the Greenland Patrol for three weeks, Eastbreeze sailed on to Boston where the Navy renamed it as USS Callao. The Externsteine/Eastbreeze/Callao was the only enemy surface vessel captured at sea by U.S. naval forces during the war. (USCGC Northland also seized the German-controlled Norwegian sealer SS Buskø on 12 September 1941.) Eastwind and Southwind had gone farther north and returned under their own power than any vessel ever before. (An interesting sidelight from the Wikipedia report of the capture, “On 2 October, a Grumman J2F Duck aircraft from USCGC Eastwind spotted a trawler camouflaged in a field of unconsolidated pack ice off North Little Koldewey Island, where the Germans had set up a weather station. The camouflaged ship was visible on the aircraft’s radar”–surprising the little float plane had radar!)

1947  CGC Bibb rescued all 62 passengers and seven crew members of the transatlantic flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen in the mid-Atlantic after the flying boat made an emergency landing near the cutter.  The rescue was of the most dramatic rescues ever undertaken by the Coast Guard on the open ocean.

1961  After an Air Force B-52G [serial number 58-196??] with eight persons on board was reported overdue and possibly down in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere off Newfoundland, the Coast Guard commander, Eastern Area, coordinated the extensive search that resulted.  Participating in it were 79 U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force, and Canadian aircraft, five U.S. Coast Guard cutters, and two merchant ships.  Despite this search that lasted through October 18 and covered 286,225 square miles, no trace of the missing B-52 or its crew was found.