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

April 26

USRC HUDSON At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 21 April 1898 being outfitted for service in the Spanish-American War, which included adding additional armament, armor plating, and a new coat of “war paint” U.S. Coast Guard History website

1898  During the Spanish-American War, cutters Morrill, Hudson (hero ship of Cardenas Bay), and Hamilton, formerly revenue cutters and recently armed for service in the so-called “Mosquito Fleet,” passed through Hampton Roads and after asking formal permission of the Commodore, proceeded to Key West.  From that point, they joined the Navy ships of the Cuban blockading fleet.

USRC MORRILL. Photographed by the Detroit Photographic Co. Library of Congress photo No. LC-D4-9016

1899  The Revenue Cutter Service signed a lease with two prominent Baltimore landowners for 36 acres of farmland surrounding Arundel Cove, Maryland. Two months later, LT John Moore, USRCS, arrived aboard the side-wheeler Colfax to establish the “Revenue Cutter Station at Curtis Bay,” today’s United States Coast Guard Yard.

USRC Mohawk

1912  President William Howard Taft boarded the USRC Mohawk on this date in 1912.  The cutter took the president from New York City’s Recreation Pier on “West 50th Street” to Governors Island and back for the funeral of MAJGEN Frederick Dent Grant, son of former President Ulysses S. Grant.