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

November 27

Crumple Island Station

1883  The schooner Maggie W. Willard with a crew of five men struck on Sea Horse Rock about two miles west of the Crumple Island Station (First District) on the coast of Maine at 1 o’clock in the afternoon.  She was discovered by the station crew, who offered assistance.  Finding the vessel in a very dangerous position and leaking the crew’s effects were saved and they were taken to the station.  All efforts to get the vessel off failed.  That night the schooner drove over the reef and sunk in deep water, becoming a total loss.

November 28

1894 photograph of Keeper Lawson surrounded by his NWU student surfmen. (Courtesy of NWU Deering Library)

1889  The crew of the Evanston, IL, Life-Saving Station earned the Gold Lifesaving Medal for the rescue of the crew of the steamer Calumet.   Most of the crew consisted of students from Northwestern University.

1942  Petty Officer Clifford Johnson was on liberty at the Coconut Grove Lounge in Boston on the night of November 28, 1942 when the lounge caught fire.  Over 490 persons perished in what was one of the worst fires in the nation’s history.  Petty Officer Johnson repeatedly risked his life by entering the fire on four occasions to pull victims from the flames, receiving severe burns over his body.  He spent over two years in the hospital recovering from his injuries.

USCGC Stratton

2014  CGC Stratton returned to its homeport at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California, after a 140-day deployment to the Arctic and Central America.  Since departing in July 2014, Stratton’s crew completed a 24,000-mile deployment in support of the nation’s interests in the Arctic and joint counter-drug operations off the coast of California and Central America.  During this operational patrol, Stratton’s law enforcement crews seized and disrupted 6.6 tons of illegal narcotics valued in excess of $27.5 Million.  Stratton Coast Guardsmen assisted mariners in four separate search and rescue cases.  Furthering national strategic goals, the cutter’s crew patrolled the Arctic and conducted interoperability tests with new equipment.  Stratton Coast Guardsmen worked closely with the communities in isolated locations of Point Lay, Gamble and Barrow, Alaska.  The crew went ashore to schools and civic centers to teach water safety and provide life jackets to community members.