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

January 5

1883  At 1 o’clock in the afternoon the crew of the Quoddy Head Station discovered a schooner at anchor.  The weather was bitter cold, with a gale from the northwest.  The men got the station’s boat out and pulled to the vessel.  She proved to be Clara Dinsmore from Boston.  There were four men on board, one of them a passenger.  With her sails iced up and splitting, she was in need of assistance.  The keeper took charge and got the vessel under way with the sails she had left and beat her up the bay to her destination at 6 o’clock in the evening.

1975  The “Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC)” Showa Maru ran aground in the Straits of Malacca, eight miles from Singapore Harbor, resulting in a major oil spill.  At the request of the Japanese Government, 10 Coast Guardsmen from the National Strike Force were sent to Singapore aboard a Military Airlift Command aircraft.  In addition to the team, four pumping subsystems of the Coast Guard’s Air Deliverable Anti-Pollution Transfer System (ADAPTS) were also airlifted to the scene. The governments of Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia concurred in the request for assistance.  This incident marked the second time in a year that the Strike Force responded to the request of a foreign government for assistance, the first being a request by the Chilean government to assist after the grounding of VLCC Metula in the Strait of Magellan in August 1974.

January 6

SS Washington, New York Harbor

1934  The United States Line SS Washington came within inches of ramming the new Light Vessel No. 117 on the Nantucket Station.  The liner scraped the lightship’s side, shearing off davits, a lifeboat, antennas, etc.  Five months later the lightship was sunk by the White Star Line RMS Olympic when it rammed the lightship, killing seven of the lightship’s crew.

“L.S. #117.” Photo No. 43; 26 February 1931; photograph by “G.E.E.” LV 117, on station soon after her commissioning in 1930. This photo was taken three years prior to her fateful rendezvous with the Olympic.

1973  The Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut, announced that its cadets were served “meals for the first time by female civilian employees.”  The Academy had “recently become the first of the nation’s service schools to contract their food services to a civilian company.”  Previously, Coast Guard personnel had done the serving.