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

January 30

Model of the revenue cutter Jefferson Davis. On display at Coast Guard Museum/Northwest, Seattle, Washington. Sister ship of McClelland.

1861 Treasury Secretary John A. Dix ordered LT S. B. Caldwell, the second in command of the cutter McClelland, “to arrest Capt. Breshwood [the cutter’s commanding officer and a Confederate sympathizer] assume command of cutter and if anyone attempts to haul down the flag, shoot him on the spot.”  The message was not delivered by the telegraph office.  Breshwood turned McClelland over to the State of Louisiana, where the cutter ended up in Confederate service.  The northern papers reported the story though and the Secretary’s order became a rallying cry in support of the Union’s war effort.

1942 The capsized wreck of CGC Alexander Hamilton was sunk by the Navy after U-132 torpedoed the cutter off the coast of Iceland the previous day.  She was the first cutter sunk by enemy action during World War II.  Twenty-six of her crew perished in the attack.

“Convoy WS-12: A Vought SB2U Vindicator scout bomber from USS Ranger (CV-4) flies anti-submarine patrol over the convoy, while it was en route to Cape Town, South Africa, 27 November 1941. The convoy appears to be making a formation turn from column to line abreast. Two-stack transports in the first row are USS West Point (AP-23) — left –; USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) and Coast Guard manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). Heavy cruisers, on the right side of the first row and middle of the second, are USS Vincennes (CA-44) and USS Quincy (CA-39). Single-stack transports in the second row are Coast Guard manned transports USS Leonard Wood (AP-25) and USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26).”

1942 USS Wakefield, the former passenger liner SS Manhattan converted to a troop transport and manned by a Coast Guard crew, transported British troops to Singapore.  Having disembarked the troops, she was bombed by Japanese aircraft while still tied up.  Five of her Coast Guard crew were killed and nine were wounded.  After temporary repairs, Wakefield evacuated 500 women and children to Bombay before the port fell to the Japanese

The U.S. Navy troop transport USS Wakefield (AP-21) off the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts (USA), in March 1944. Wakefield had been completely rebuilt at Boston after a large onboard fire in September 1942.

1979 There was an explosion at the Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment office at Ponce Playa, Port Ponce, Puerto Rico.  The OVPR (Organizacion De Voluntarios Por La Revelucion Puerto Riquena) claimed responsibility.  The terrorist attack caused no casualties and little damage to the facility.

1982 Coast Guard 8th District units responded to the flooding of the Calcasieu River near Lake Charles, Louisiana.  Up river Coast Guard boats searched daily for stranded people and domestic animals.  Downriver COTP Port Arthur and Marine Safety Detachment Lake Charles wrestled with the problem of strong currents and four run-away barges that destroyed one bridge and threatened two others.