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

June 28

1946  Peacetime cruises for the cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London Connecticut, were revived.

June 29

Revenue Cutter Dallas 1815

1820  The Revenue cutter Dallas captured the 12-gun brig-of-war General Ramirez, which was loaded with 280 slaves, off St. Augustine.  The July 8, 1820 issue of the Savannah Republican noted:

“On the 28th ultimo, while the Cutter DALLAS was lying in the St. Mary’s River, Captain Jackson received information that the Brig of war GENERAL RAMIREZ, supposed to be a piratical vessel was hovering off St. Augustine.  The Cutter forthwith got under way in pursuit of the Brig having first obtained 12 United States soldiers from Fernandina to strengthen the Cutter’s force.  At half past three the next day, she hailed the Brig and received for answer, “This is the Patriot Brig GENERAL RAMIREZ—-.” Captain Jackson finding a number of blacks on board took possession of the vessel and brought her into St. Mary’s, arriving on the 1st instant.  Captain Jackson found on the Brig about 280 African slaves.  The Captain and crew, 28 in number, acknowledged themselves Americans.”

CDR Frank Erickson, USCG, the first US Naval Aviation helicopter pilot.

1944  CDR Frank A. Erickson landed a helicopter on the flight deck of CGC Cobb. This was the first rotary-wing aircraft-shipboard landing by Coast Guard personnel.

A U.S. Coast Guard Sikorsky HNS-1 helicopter (right) and a Sikorsky HOS-1 (left) conducting experimental flight operations on USCGC Cobb (WPG-181), 15 June 1944.

1950  The Coast Guard adopted a Navy directive relative to security measures, including precautions against possible sabotage at installations and aboard ships.

The components and operation of the Cospas-Sarsat system

1982  The Soviet Union launched COSPAS I, the first search and rescue satellite ever launched.  In combination with later SARSAT satellites, a new multi-agency, international, search and rescue service was made operational.

USS Stockdale (DDG 106). U.S. Navy File Photo

2013  A Coast Guard Advanced Interdiction Team (AIT) returned home from a four-month counter piracy deployment to the Middle East.  The team was comprised of three units: Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) Los Angeles-Long Beach, MSST San Diego, and the Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team (PACTACLET) out of San Diego.  Under the direction of the U. S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, the team served aboard the U.S. Naval guided missile destroyer USS Stockdale, working side by side with the ship’s Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team assigned to Combined Task Force 151.  While on board the Stockdale, the team’s primary mission was to fight maritime terrorism and counter piracy.  The AIT and VBSS conducted joint training for counter piracy, illegal activity interdictions, and boardings.  The training also included space accountability for hidden compartments, mock medical emergencies, and planning and executing mission contingencies.  CTF-151 was a multi-national task force working under Combined Maritime Forces to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.  Augmented by members from the Coast Guard, the joint-unit team was engaged in stemming illegal piracy and armed robbery at sea.

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

June 27

1851  The British bark Henry stranded off Bridgehampton Beach, Long Island with 204 persons on board. All were safely landed with government surf boat.

https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Portals/10/CG-1/leadership/docs/pdf/ELN/burke.pdf?ver=2017-03-01-092950-090

1935  Coast Guard aviator LT Richard L. Burke set a world record for altitude in an amphibious aircraft when he reached 5449 meters (17877.2) feet with a 500 kilogram load on this date in 1935.  He piloted Coast Guard Grumman JF-2 (V-167).

A U.S. Coast Guard Grumman JF-2 Duck (serial V148) in the mid to late 1930s.

The Coast Guard Cutter Walnut, homeported in Honolulu, Hi., off the coast of Iraq in the North Arabian Gulf April 19, 2003. The Walnut is replacing buoys in the Khawr Abd Allah waterway to ensure safe transit for vessels sailing to the port of Umm Kusr including vessels bringing humanatarian aid to the people of Iraq.

2003  CGC Walnut, homeported in Honolulu, returned home after being deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  She deployed to the North Arabian Gulf in January with an oil spill recovery system in the event the regime of Saddam Hussein committed any acts of environmental terrorism.  When those threats did not materialize, the cutter conducted maritime interception operations enforcing U.N. Security Council resolutions, participated in the search for two downed United Kingdom helicopters, and patrolled and provided assistance to captured Iraqi offshore oil terminals being secured by Coast Guard port security personnel. The cutter’s crew completely replaced 30 buoys and repaired an additional five along the 41-mile Khawr Abd Allah Waterway.  This ATON mission vastly improved the navigational safety of the waterway for humanitarian aid, commercial, and military vessels sailing to the port and was a critical step to economic recovery for the people of Iraq.

USCGC Assateague

2014  CGC Assateague returned to home port in Apra Harbor, Guam following a six-day exclusive economic zone enforcement patrol.  While underway the cutter patrolled the western-most area of the exclusive economic zone extending 200 nautical miles west of Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana’s Island chain, ensuring no foreign fishing vessels were fishing within waters of the United States and that all U.S. fishing vessels were doing so in accordance with the United States’ applicable maritime laws.  Additionally, during its transit north, the cutter transported supplies to the Pagan Installation Project, which consists of a joint partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Geological Survey, NOAA, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands government.  The project, which is being done on the remote island of Pagan in the northern part of the CNMI chain, is being done to install seismic sensors, monitoring stations, and seismic cables in an effort to monitor volcanic activity.  To facilitate their efforts, Assateague crewmembers met with project managers in Saipan to pick up 700 pounds of five gallon water jugs, 1,200 pounds of cement bags, tents and camping supplies, and various sized batteries, which were all then transported to Pagan.  These items were greatly needed due to the sheer isolation and remoteness of Pagan, which houses only seven permanent residents and is 170 miles north of Saipan, the closest inhabited island with modern amenities.

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

June 26

1944  LCDR Quentin R. Walsh and his commando unit forced the surrender of Fort du Homet, a Nazi stronghold at Cherbourg, France, captured 300 German soldiers and liberated 50 U.S. paratroopers who had been captured on D-Day.  For his heroic actions, Walsh was awarded the Navy Cross.

Walsh’s 53-man unit (of whom three were killed and ten wounded –Chuck)  landed and contacted elements of the US Army’s 79th Infantry Division, which was engaging the Germans in fierce house-to-house fighting. Allied forces quickly captured the eastern part of the port, while most of the Germans retreated to the western section of the city. Knowing the port was essentially unusable with pockets of resistance remaining, Walsh personally led a 16-member unit of his special task force on a raid to an arsenal area and adjacent waterfront on the western side of the port city. Armed with bazookas, hand grenades, rifles, and submachine guns, he and his party overcame sniper fire and blew open steel doors of underground bunkers, capturing 400 Germans. Walsh and one other officer then approached the German command post at Fort Du Homet under a flag of truce and bluffed its commander into surrendering, capturing a further 350 Germans and liberating 52 American paratroopers being held as prisoners of war. Only then did Walsh begin restoring vital port operations as Port Director.

German prisoners march out of surrendered Cherbourg under U.S. Army guard. U.S. Navy photo.

The US Navy is building a flight III Burke class destroyer in Bath to be named for Walsh.

190606-N-DM308-001 Cherbourg, France(June 6, 2019) A graphic illustration of the future Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Quentin Walsh (DDG 132). (U.S. Navy photo illustration by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Paul L. Archer/Released)

1948  In order to implement the expanded postwar activities of the Coast Guard in the field of aids to navigation, Congress approved Public Law 786, which provided legislative authority for the Coast Guard to establish and operate maritime aids for the armed forces and LORAN stations essential for the armed forces and maritime and air commerce of the United States.

1978  The first U.S. ocean-monitoring satellite, SEASAT-A, was launched into earth orbit from Vandenberg AFB.

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

June 24

1914  Congress authorized the Secretary of Treasury to “detail for duty on revenue cutters such surgeons and other persons of the Public Health Service as…necessary” and for cutters with such medical personnel aboard to extend medical and surgical aid to crews of American vessels engaged in deep sea fisheries.  This Act of Congress (38 Stat. L., 387) regularized procurement and assignment procedures of Public Health Service personnel to revenue cutters, launching a partnership between the two services that continues to this day.

1930  An Act of Congress provided “that light keepers and vessel officers and crews, who during their active service were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service, may be given such relief after retirement as is now applicable to retired officers and men in other branches of the Government service, under joint regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce.”

1938  Under an Executive Order of this date, “about 35 positions of steward on lighthouse tenders were brought under the classified civil service.”

USCGC Juniper (WLB-201)

1995  CGC Juniper was launched, the first of the new 225-foot Juniper Class buoy tenders.

USCGC Juniper (WLB-201) and USCGC Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126) patrol the waters of American Samoa

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

June 23

View of Boston Light, 1729, Boston Public Library

1716  The Province of Massachusetts authorized the erection of the first lighthouse in America. “This bill named the location for the light as the southern part of Great Brewster Island, then called Beacon Island, and today known as Little Brewster Island.“

Boston Light at sunset
NPS Photo/G. Sager

1817  The cutter Active forced a South American privateer posing as an armed merchantman to leave the Chesapeake Bay and American waters.

USCGC Comanche former USRC Windom

1895  USRC Windom was launched.  She was the service’s first attempt at “modern” ship construction and was designed by the Coast Guard’s Engineering Division, complete with in-house staff naval architects and engineers.  Windom was the first cutter to have a modern powerplant, in this case a triple-expansion steam engine, and a fully watertight hull with transverse and longitudinal bulkheads.  She was capable of making a top speed of 15 knots.

USCGC Nike (WPC-112); late WWII outfit. no caption/number; photographer/date unknown.

1934  CGC Nike departed on a thousand-mile trip to the sea after it became the Coast Guard’s first patrol boat built on an inland waterway.  It was built at Point Pleasant, West Virginia and was launched into the Ohio River after being christened by Mrs. Charles O. Weisenberger, wife of the president of the Marietta Manufacturing Company which built Nike.  The cutter was bound for Pascagoula, Mississippi to replace the recently decommissioned cutter Tuscarora, which itself had been in service for over 35 years.

1939  Congress created the Coast Guard Reserve which later became what is today the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

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

June 20

1874  An Act of Congress provided for lifesaving stations on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Florida, as well as on the Great Lakes and the Pacific Coast.

1874  The first Life Saving Medal enactment was passed, which was updated in 1878 and 1882.  Ship masters were also required to report accidents and death in order to gather data to aid in evaluating sites for search and rescue stations.

1906  Congress passed the Sponge Fishing Act and directed that the Revenue Cutter Service enforce it.

1918  An Act of Congress (40 Stat. L., 607, 608) changed the designation of Lighthouse Inspectors, who were in charge of the 19 lighthouse districts, to that of Superintendents of Lighthouses.

25 May 1963 — The first of the new class of 210-foot cutters, USCGC 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.”

1964  CGC Reliance, the first of the Coast Guard’s new 210-foot medium endurance cutter class, was commissioned.

North Vietnamese 100′ Trawler burns on a South Vietnamese beach after being forced ashore by USCGC POINT LEAGUE, on 20 June 1966. It was carrying an estimated 250 tons of supplies for the Viet Cong. USN 1116663

1966  CGC Point League attacked and crippled a North Vietnamese junk attempting to run the Navy’s Market Time blockade.  The action continued into the next day as the junk stranded itself on the shore and its crew fired a demolition charge, destroying their ship.

USCGC Point League (WPB-823304) forces North Vietnamese trawler aground near Ba Song, RVN, 20 June 1966.