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

Joseph Francis Life-Car. Image credit: Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

1853  The ship Cornelius Grinnell grounded in a heavy surf off Squan Beach, New Jersey.  A surf car was used to rescue safely all 234 persons on board.

1925  Congress authorized the Coast Guard to assist in the enforcement of the Alaskan Game Law.

USS Milwaukee (Cruiser # 21) stranded at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California. She had gone aground on 13 January 1917 while attempting to salvage the grounded submarine H-3.
This photograph was taken soon after her crew had been brought ashore. Note that her flag is still flying from her mainmast.

1918  Surfmen from the Humboldt Bay Lifesaving Station rescued the 430-man crew of the Navy cruiser USS Milwaukee safely after the cruiser ran aground.  Milwaukee had been attempting to pull a grounded submarine off of Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, when she too ran aground and was a total loss.

1982  Air Florida Flight 90 crashed onto the 14th Street Bridge and then into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., during a heavy snow storm.  Coast Guard units, including cutters Capstan and Madrona, divers from the Atlantic Strike Team, a helicopter from AIRSTA Elizabeth City, personnel from Curtis Bay, and reservists from Station Washington assisted in the rescue of the five surviving passengers and the recovery of the aircraft’s wreckage.  The plane crushed several cars on the bridge.  All told seventy-four persons lost their lives.