Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso
June 1
Spectacle Reef Lighthouse
1874 The light was first lit at Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, located on a limestone reef at the northern end of Lake Huron, near the Straits of Mackinac, ten miles from land. The structure of this lighthouse was similar to that of Minots Ledge, and its construction was “a notable engineering work.”
USCGC Manitou (WYT-60) Operating in the Arctic Ice, during World War II. Note her ice-breaking bow. Photo was taken in Greenland. Catalog #: 26-G-3497
The wooden fishing trawler Belmont was acquired for service for a fee of $2,122 to serve under charter by the Navy “for Coast Guard use as a vessel of the Greenland Patrol.” After conversion, including the addition of two small depth charge tracks and minimal anti-aircraft armament, she was commissioned as a vessel of the Coast Guard on 19 June 1942 and renamed Natsek.
1941 The Navy organized the South Greenland Patrol. It consisted of three cutters and a Navy vessel.
Callao (IX-205) as the armed German Naval Auxiliary vessel Externsteine off Greenland after being captured by the Coast Guard in October 1944. US Coast photo
1946 The Coast Guard returned to operation under the Treasury Department after the end of World War II.
Memorial Duty 2025. In honor of Memorial Day, #TCCM recruits and permanent party held a wreath laying ceremony at the #USCG Enlisted Memorial. Today especially, we reflect on the service and sacrifice of all American military personnel who died in the performance of their military duties, and to pay tribute to these heroes and to honor the family members they left behind.
1948 The Coast Guard Training Center at Cape May, New Jersey, was established as a receiving center for the initial classification, outfitting, and indoctrination of recruits. The primary reason for this move from the training station at Mayport, Florida, which was then be decommissioned, was to locate more centrally the Service’s facilities for handling recruits.
Adm. Linda Fagan relieves Adm. Karl Schultz as the 27th commandant of the Coast Guard during a change of command ceremony at Coast Guard headquarters June 1, 2022. Fagan is the first woman service chief of any U.S. military service. U.S. COAST GUARD / Petty Officer 1st Class Travis Magee
2022 ADM Linda L. Fagan is sworn in by POTUS, as the 27th Commandant of the United States, first woman leader of the Coast Guard, and first female uniformed lead of a US Military Service.
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