This Day in Coast Guard History, May 25

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

May 25

1877  The training of first class of Revenue Cutter cadets began on the school-ship Dobbin at Curtis Bay, Maryland, with nine cadets, three officers, one surgeon, six warrant officers, and 17 crew members on board.

USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)

1963  The first of the new class of 210-foot cutters, CGC Reliance (WPC-615, later WMEC-615), was christened at Todd Shipyard, Houston, Texas.  The wife of the Commandant at the time, Mrs. Edwin J. Roland, was the sponsor for the cutter.  A news report published at the time noted: “The CGC RELIANCE, to be stationed at Corpus Christi, Texas, marks a significant milestone in the building program of the Coast Guard as it is the first cruising cutter of any size built for Coast Guard service in almost twenty years.”

USCGC DILIGENCE returns to Pensacola.

2020  CGC Diligence departed Wilmington, North Carolina for the last time. The cutter spent the previous 28 years homeported on Wilmington’s historic downtown Riverwalk, along the bank of the Cape Fear River.

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