This Day in Coast Guard History, July 2

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

July 2

1836  Congress authorized pay increases for the officers in the Revenue Cutter Service.  Captain’s pay increased to $1200 per annum, First Lieutenant’s to $960, Second Lieutenant’s to $860, and Third Lieutenant’s to $790.

USCGC Itasca as HMS Gorlsston

1937  CGC Itasca, while conducting re-supply operations in the Central Pacific, made the last-known radio contact with the famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan.  Itasca later joined the Navy-directed search for the aircraft.  The search was finally called off on July 17 with no trace of the aircraft or its occupants having been found.

USCGC Bertholf and Russian Coast Guard ship Vorovski, May 2016

2005  The CGC Jarvis and the Russian Northeast Border Directorate vessel Vorovsky rendezvoused about 450 miles southwest of Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain and 250 miles east of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula to perform the first joint security exercise of the “North Pacific Heads of Coast Guard Agencies.”

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