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

January 11

Portrait of Hamilton authoring the first draft of the U.S. Constitution in 1787

1755/57  Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and the “father” of the U.S. Coast Guard, was born on this day in either 1755 or 1757 in the town of Nevis, British West Indies.

1882  At 0900 during a thick snowstorm, the schooner A .F. Ames of Rockland, Maine, was bound from Perth Amboy to Boston with a crew of seven persons.  She stranded during a thick snowstorm five hundred yards east of Race Point and one mile and three-quarters west of Station No. 6, Second District.  The vessel was discovered by the patrol and the life-saving crew boarded her at 0915. She was leaking and pounding heavily.  The pumps were manned to keep the water down.  The vessel was floated on the rising tide and made sail.  She was piloted into deep water. The leak, however, was gaining rapidly.  After consulting with the captain, the vessel was put on the beach.  The crew was sheltered at the station until the 13th when the keeper sent them to Boston.

1991  Coast Guard units responded after receiving a distress call from F/V Sea King, a 75-foot stern trawler with four persons on board that was taking on water and in danger of sinking off Peacock Spit near the mouth of the Columbia River.  The Coast Guard units that responded included a prototype 47-foot MLB, two 44-foot MLBs, the 52-foot MLB CG-52314 Triumph II, and a Coast Guard helicopter.  Despite valiant efforts to save the vessel, it capsized and sank.  Three Coast Guardsmen who went aboard the vessel to assist were safely rescued from the water.  Another, MK1 Charles Sexton, an emergency medical technician who went aboard the Sea King to assist an injured crewman, was pulled from the water but died 50 minutes after his arrival at a local hospital.  MK1 Sexton was posthumously awarded the Coast Guard Medal.

“A Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat Crew had proceeded to the fishing trawler Sea King in motor lifeboat 44381, because the trawler had lost power off the Columbia bar and was taking on water. As the unit’s Emergency Medical Technician, Sexton was tending to a wounded fisherman’s injuries after bringing over dewatering pumps when the trawler unexpectedly turned over. Two of the trawler’s crew and a Coast Guardsman were thrown into the Ocean and were eventually rescued, but Sexton and two other crew members became trapped in the vessel’s pilot house and drowned.”

USCGC Charles Sexton (WPC-1108). US Coast Guard photo.

Petty Officer Charles Sexton lost his life helping to save fishermen off the Oregon coast.jpg