This Day in Coast Guard History, April 5

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

April 5

USCGC Itasca as HMS Gorlsston

1941  President Franklin Roosevelt signed the official order to transfer all 10 Coast Guard Lake-Class cutters of the Coast Guard to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease.

HMS WALNEY, formerly USS SEBAGO, after refit. Underway in coastal waters. Tomlin, H W (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer – This photograph A 5322 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01)

1950  The Coast Guard announced that former enlisted women of the Coast Guard Reserve could apply for enlistment in the “Women’s Volunteer Reserve.”  Enlistments were to be for a three-year period with written agreement to serve on active duty in time of war or national emergency.

1967  The commander of all Soviet fishing vessels in the Far East, Evgeniy Gromov, invited representatives from the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries to meet aboard the Soviet vessel Olivtorka off Kodiak, Alaska.  The purpose of the meeting was to improve understanding in the implementation of the recent U.S.-Soviet 12-mile fisheries agreement that went into effect on March 15, 1967.

 

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