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

United States Revenue Cutter Service Ship Pickering, later renamed to USS Pickering U.S. Navy Historical Center Photograph- -Released

1799  USRC Pickering (70 men) (having been transferred to the US Navy 20 May) captured the French privateer L’Egypte Conquiste (250 men) on this date during the Quasi-War with France.

Earliest known photo of the 1849 station, circa 1900. National Archives, Record Group 26

1848  Captain Douglas Ottinger, USRM, was designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to supervise the construction of the first Life-Saving stations and the equipment and boats to be placed at them.