This Day in Coast Guard History, March 20

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 20

Schooner I’m Alone

1929 The most notable incident from which international complications resulted during the Prohibition era was that of the schooner I’m Alone of Nova Scotia, a vessel built for the rum trade. She had successfully plied this trade for over four years when she appeared off the Texas coast and was picketed by the cutter Wolcott in the spring of 1929. Boatswain Frank Paul marked her at 10.8 miles from shore and signaled her to heave to. Several blanks were fired and this brought the vessel to a stop. Captain Randall of the schooner allowed the Boatswain on board, there was a discussion, but when he returned, I’m Alone continued on her way. The chase resumed and shots were fired into her rigging. On the second morning, some two hundred miles south of the U.S., the cutter Dexter came up to assist and proceeded to fire into the runner, sinking the vessel. One of her crew was drowned. Repercussions were heard immediately from Canada, Britain, and France, as the drowned seaman was French. The initial complaint was that of the position of the schooner at the point of contact. Her captain maintained she was only a 7-knot vessel and she was anchored about 15 miles out in safe waters. The second infraction was that the pursuit was not a continuous one; the intervention of Dexter muddied this question. Since the speed of the suspect vessel is a consideration in determining how far out it might be seized, it should be noted that I’m Alone managed to stay ahead of Wolcott, a nearly new cutter capable of at least 11 knots, for over 24 hours. As I’m Alone was sunk, the captain’s statement that her engines were in need of repair also could not be proven. In any case, the international round of diplomatic niceties did not cease until 1935 when the United States backed off and compensation was paid to the crew of the schooner.

USCGC Wolcott, Type: 100-foot
LOA: 99’8” / 30.38m – LOD: 99’8” / 30.38m – Beam: 23’0” / 7.01m – Draft: 10’9” / 3.28m – Displacement: Gross 173 Net Tons 105, Speed: 12 knots maximum (original spec) – Built by: Defoe Boat & Motor Works of Bay City, Michigan. – Year Launched: July 1926

USCGC Dexter

USCGC Dexter 3″/23 gunnery practice. This was the Weapon Dexter used to sink the I’m Alone.

1941 Sabotage was discovered on an Italian vessel at Wilmington, North Carolina. The Coast Guard investigated all Italian and German vessels in American ports and took into “protective custody” 28 Italian vessels, two German and 35 Danish vessels. Coast Guard boarding teams discovered that their crews had damaged 27 of the Italian ships and one of the German ships. The Coast Guard also took into custody a total of 850 Italian and 63 German officers and crew. Two months later these vessels were requisitioned for service with the United States by order of Congress for the Latin American trade.

This Day in Coast Guard History, March 19

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 19

1943 British Steamer Svend Foyne was a victim of an iceberg collision off the southern tip of Greenland. One hundred forty-five persons were rescued by the Coast Guard and others. The International Ice Patrol was suspended during this period (1942-1945) of World War II.

Coast Guard manned Destroyer Escort USS Menges, after hit by a German Acoustic Homing Torpedo, May, 1944

1945 The first all-Coast Guard hunter-killer group ever established during the war searched for a reported German U-boat near Sable Island. The group was made up of the Coast Guard-manned destroyer escorts USS Lowe, Menges, Mosley, and Pride, and was under the overall command of CDR R. H. French, USCG. He flew his pennant from Pride. Off Sable Island the warships located, attacked, and sank the U-866 with the loss of all hands. Interestingly, the Menges had been a victim of a German acoustic torpedo during escort-of-convoy operations in the Mediterranean in 1944. The torpedo had detonated directly under her stern, causing major damage and casualties, but she remained afloat. She was later towed to port and the stern of another destroyer escort, one that had been damaged well forward, was welded onto the Menges. She then returned to action.

USS Pride (DE-323), Coast Guard manned destroyer escort

Appearing very different from its last Greenland visit in 1884, the USS Bear returned in 1944. Unlike in 1884, the Bear relied on a Coast Guard crew during World War II. As part of the Greenland Patrol, it cruised Greenland’s waters and, in October 1941, brought home the German trawler Buskø, the first enemy vessel captured by the U.S. in WWII. (Coast Guard photo)

1963 The famous cutter Bear sank off the coast of Nova Scotia on this date while under tow from Halifax to Philadelphia were she as slated to be “put out to pasture” as a floating museum-restaurant. The two men who were aboard the old cutter were rescued after a Coast Guard aircraft dropped a raft to the accompanying tug.

1989 M/V Aoyagi Maru ran aground on a reef in Lost Harbor, Alaska. USCGC Rush rescued the crew of 19. She was declared a total loss after being gutted by fire when 1,200 pounds of explosives were ignited to burn off the 100,000 gallons of fuel left aboard and her cargo of 74,000 pounds of rotting cod.

This Day in Coast Guard History, March 18

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 18

1909 Stations Holly Beach and Hereford Inlet, New Jersey: the schooner C.B. parted its chain while weighing anchor. She set a distress signal which was discovered by the lookouts at both stations. The surfboats proceeded to the scene and surfmen swept for the chain and assisted in securing it on board.

USCGC Ingham (WPG-35) underway in heavy seas, circa 1941-1944, location unknown.
US Coast Guard photo # 2000225945

1943 USCGC Ingham rescued all hands from the torpedoed SS Matthew Luckenbach. (Ingham was the most decorated vessel in the Coast Guard fleet and was the only cutter to ever be awarded two Presidential Unit Citations.)

131107-N-WX059-125 PEARL HARBOR (Nov. 7, 2013) The Bangladesh Navy Ship (BNS) Somudra Joy (F-28) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a scheduled port visit. From 1972 to 2012 the ship was known as the U.S. Coast Guard Hamilton-class high endurance Cutter USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean Furey/Released)

1967 The 378-foot high endurance cutter Hamilton, first in her class, was commissioned. This was the first class of major vessels in the U.S. government’s inventory that were powered by jet turbines. (By then the first five WMEC210s, all CODAG powered, had already been commissioned. The turbines on the 378s were literal Jet engines, being the same engines used on the Boeing 707s)

95 foot Cape Class WPB

1991 CGC Cape Hatteras (WPB 95305) was decommissioned. She was the last 95-foot patrol boat in the Coast Guard. She was then transferred to Mexico.

1996 The single-hulled barge San Gabriel buckled and split open in rough seas, rupturing two tanks and spilling 210,000 gallons of oil in the Houston Ship Channel near Galveston, Texas. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit (MSU) Galveston established a joint command structure with local agencies and private contractors to isolate and then clean up the spill. Personnel from the Gulf Strike Team, MSO Houston, MSO New Orleans, Aviation Training Center Mobile, and the 8th District supplemented MSU Galveston. The majority of the spill was cleaned up in three days.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter THETIS (WMEC-910) , US Navy photo ID:J3103SPT95001725 / DNST9800595

2000 CGC Thetis seized F/V Viviana II which was grossly overloaded with 234 Ecuadorean migrants. The vessel and the migrants were turned over to the Ecuadorean Navy.

Panamanian motor vessel Gatun during the largest drug bust in United States Coast Guard history (20 tons of cocaine) off the Coast of Panama. Exhibit 10 (2 of 3) from the U.S. Government’s Memorandum of Law in Support of Pretrial Detention in the case of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, described as 19,000 kilograms of cocaine aboard a maritime vessel en route from Colombia to Mexico seized March 18, 200

2007 The Coast Guard made the largest cocaine seizure in its history to date when CGCs Hamilton and Sherman seized 42,845 pound of cocaine aboard the Panamanian-flagged M/V Gatun off the coast of Panama. Gatun was first located by a HC-130 on March 17.

USRC/USS/USCGC Manning –Story from laststandonzombieIisland

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Chuck Hill

May 12, 1898, USS Manning in engaged off Cabanas, Cuba By Lieut. G. L. Carden, R.C.S. This is the only known photo of a Revenue Cutter in action during the Spanish-American War. (At the time, upon transfer to Navy control, apparently it was common for the USS designation to be substituted.)

Ran across an excellent history of the Cutter Manning and its career from 1898 to 1930 on a site with the unlikely name of laststandonzombieisland. It seems the site looks at a different vintage warship every Wednesday, and there are other cutters featured as well. I will try to cover them as well. The articles are relatively long and well illustrated with photos.

The post talks about the entire generation of cutters, SRC Gresham, USRC McCulloch, USRC Algonquin, and USRC Onondaga as well as USRC Manning.

The Propeller class was emblematic of the Revenue Cutter Service– the forerunner of the USCG– at the cusp of the 20th Century. The USRCS decided in the 1890s to build five near-sisterships that would be classified in peacetime as cutters but would be capable modern naval auxiliary gunboats.

These vessels, to the same overall concept but each slightly different in design, were built to carry a bow-mounted torpedo tube for 15-inch Bliss-Whitehead type torpedoes (although they appeared to have not been fitted with the weapons) and as many as four modern quick-firing 3-inch guns (though they typically used just two 6-pounder, 57mm popguns in peacetime). They would be the first modern cutters equipped with electric generators, triple-expansion steam engines (with auxiliary sail rigs), steel (well, mostly steel) hulls with a navy-style plow bow, and able to cut the very fast (for the time) speed of 18-ish knots.

It talks about how Coast Guard forces were deployed for the Spanish American War and how the vessels were armed.

It reproduces reports from Manning regarding her actions during the war. The ship did a lot of naval gun fire support.

After the Spanish American War she was assigned to the West coast and performed Bering Sea Patrol.

In 1912 she was in port in when the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century happened on Alaska peninsula to the NW. Manning sheltered over 400 people and provided fresh water from her evaporators (an innovation at the time).

U.S. Revenue Service cutter Manning, crowded with Kodiak residents seeking safety during the 1912 eruption of Novarupta, which resulted in about a foot of ashfall on Kodiak over nearly three days. The photograph was published in Griggs, 1922, and was taken by J.F. Hahn, U.S.R.S.

“Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai Eruption,” National Park Service:

At Kodiak, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of the eruption center, the air became thick with ash and, for 60 hours, darkness was so complete that a lantern held at arm’s length could scarcely be seen. The terrified townspeople, some temporarily blinded by the sulfurous gas, crowded onto the U.S. Revenue Cutter Manning docked in Kodiak harbor, while one foot of ash (30 cm) smothered their town with three closely spaced periods of ash fall. The weight of the ash collapsed roofs in Kodiak; buildings were wrecked by ash avalanches that rushed down from nearby hill slopes; other structures burned after being struck by lightning from the ash cloud; and water became undrinkable.

In World War I she was one of six cutters assigned to Gibraltar (Tampa, Algonquin, Seneca, Manning, Ossipee, and Yamacraw) tasked with escorting convoys between there and the British Isles.

Then USS Manning, probably 1918, as outfitted for convoy duty. She and sister Algonquin were armed with four 4-inch guns with 1,500 shells stored in two magazines fore and aft, two racks capable of carrying 16 300-pound depth charges, and four 30.06 Colt “potato digger” machine guns. A small arms locker would be filled with a pair of .30-06 Lewis guns, 18 .45 caliber Colt pistols, and 15 Springfield rifles. Photo from U.S. Warships of World War I, by P.H. Silverstone

Reverting back to the Treasury Department on 28 August 1919, Manning would remain on the East Coast, spending the next 11 years operating out of Norfolk with her traditional white hull. During this period, she would participate in the reestablished International Ice Patrol, and take part in the “Rum War” against bootleggers, and other traditional USCG taskings.

Photo by J. B. Weed from the collection of Arthur Heinickle

Important dates from NavSource:

The first Manning was built in 1898 by the Atlantic Works, East Boston, MA
Commissioned USRC Manning 8 January 1898
Acquired by the Navy 24 March 1898
Returned to the Revenue Cutter Service 17 August 1898
Acquired by the Navy again 6 April 1917
Returned to the Coast Guard 28 August 1919
Decommissioned 22 May 1930
Sold in December 1930 to Charles L. Jording of Baltimore, MD

This Day in Coast Guard History, March 17

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 17

1863 Revenue cutter Agassiz helped defend the Union-held Fort Anderson at New Bern, North Carolina, from a Confederate attack.

1902 All but one of the members of the crew of the Monomoy Life-Saving Station perished during the attempted rescue of the crew of the wrecked coal barge Wadena during a terrible winter gale. The dead included the keeper of the station, Marshall N. Eldridge, and six of his surfmen. Eldridge told his crew before they departed on the rescue that: “We must go, there is a distress flag in the rigging.” The crew of five from the barge also perished. The sole survivor, Seth L. Ellis, was the number one surfman of the Monomoy station. He was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal as was the man who rescued him, Captain Elmer Mayo of the barge Fitzpatrick.

USCGC Cayuga, circa 1936. USCG photo.

1941 CGC Cayuga left Boston with the South Greenland Survey Expedition on board to locate airfields, seaplane bases, radio and meteorological stations, and aids to navigation in Greenland. This was the beginning of the Coast Guard’s preeminent role in Greenland during World War II.

1962 After requesting the evacuation of a seriously injured crewman, the Russian merchant vessel Dbitelny transferred the patient to the Coast Guard LORAN station on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. Meanwhile, a Coast Guard aircraft flew a U.S. Navy doctor and a hospital corpsman there to perform an emergency operation. Afterwards, the injured man was flown to Elmendorf Air Force Base, where he was admitted to the U.S. Air Force hospital.

John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy. (He came to Naval War College when I was there. Very impressive.)

1982 Navy Secretary John Lehman testified before Congress on behalf of the Coast Guard. He characterized the relationship between the Navy and the Coast Guard as being “close and warm.” He also praised the new NAVGARD Board, created in November 1980, to formalize the relationship between the two services.

USCGC Thunder Bay (WTGB-108)

2015 Following a 61-day deployment on the Hudson River, CGC Thunder Bay returned to its homeport of Rockland, Maine after conducting icebreaking operations in support of Operation Reliable Energy for Northeast Winters. Thunder Bay deployed mid-January 2015 to coordinate daily ice breaking operations with CGCs Sturgeon Bay, Willow, Elm, and Wire on the Hudson River. In order to keep the channel open to commercial shipping traffic, Thunder Bay conducted operations seven days a week, with only occasional days off. The cutter navigated more than 100 river miles daily and by the end of the season Thunder Bay had sailed nearly 3000 nautical miles, conducted 554 hours of icebreaking, and made 70 vessel and facility break outs, requiring them to operate an additional 13 days beyond their original assignment.

This Day in Coast Guard History, March 16

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 16

Assateague Island life-saving station

1909 At Assateague Beach, Virginia, the schooner Charley C. Weaver began taking on water. One of the crew notified the keeper that the schooner was leaking. The life-saving station’s surfboat proceeded to the scene, 1-5/8 miles south of the station. The schooner’s crew was nearly exhausted from a long spell at the pump. Surfmen shifted her cargo of oysters. They also tried to locate the leak, but were unsuccessful. They then went ashore and returned with the power lifeboat which towed the schooner safely over the bar.

Light Weight, Long Range, Hard Hitting, Affordable Weapon for Small Craft

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Chuck Hill

The Whiskey Project Group, Whiskey Bravo with Rafael Spike NLOS

Shortly after publishing “Is the Coast Guard Going to Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight? A Gun to a Missile Fight?” I ran across this post from Interesting Engineering, “US Marines get next-gen missile-launching boats with helicopter-like striking power” which reported,

In a significant milestone for Australian defense manufacturer The Whiskey Project Group, the company has successfully delivered its first batch of four multi-mission reconnaissance boats to the U.S. Marine Corps…These boats are equipped with cutting-edge capabilities and technology to increase their operational adaptability for the Navy and Marine Corps use.

The Whiskey Bravo’s integration with Rafael’s Spike NLOS (Non-Line of Sight) missile system is one of its primary characteristics.

This might lead you to believe the boats delivered to the Marines are equipped with the Spike NLOS (non-line of sight), but that is unlikely. I have seen no indication the Marines are adopting Spike NLOS, although it is currently being used as an interim solution by the US Army from AH-64 attack helicopters.

Still, it does seem like the type of weapon the Coast Guard could use on its Patrol Craft since two four cell launchers can be mounted on an 11.9 meter boat. This illustrates how adaptable such weapons can be. Less capable systems like Hellfire or JASM are smaller and lighter and the APKWS is far smaller still.

The Navy has no combatants close to the size of Coast Guard patrol craft. It is not surprising that they have shown little interest in lighter weapons, sized for vessels smaller than frigates. When the Coast Guard considers how to arm their smaller ships and negotiates with the Navy, perhaps they should look at weapons used on Marine Corps helicopters, boats, and vehicles, they should all be light enough to fit on patrol craft. That the Navy has begun to look at unmanned surface vessels suggests there might be growing shared interest in weapons for smaller vessels.

The Marines are probably not interested in Spike NLOS because the US is developing a comparable or better similar sized missile. Spike NLOS is the Army’s “interim Long Range Precision munition.” so presumably something else is being developed.

“US MARINE CORPS AND L3HARRIS LAUNCH FIRST LONG-RANGE PRECISION FIRE IN TRAINING RANGE DEMONSTRATION”

NAVAIR reports tests of a “longe range precision fire capability.”

The event was successfully executed at Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG) in Yuma, AZ where an AH-1Z conducted single launch by way of a wireless application via Marine Air-Ground Tablet (MAGTAB).

(That the Marines are looking for an RHIB of this size, is interesting. Wonder if they would fit in the Bertholf class NSCs stern ramp. The Whiskey Project Group (TWPG) is setting up a manufacturing facility in North Carolina.)

The Whiskey Project Group, Whiskey Bravo with twin quad launchers for Rafael Spike NLOS

Though I doubt we will see wide spread use of the Spike NLOS by the US, I will pass along some information I’ve learned about the system and some videos of it in operation,

Spike NLOS is marketed through Lockheed Martin.

Rafael has a US branch.

There is a specific Naval version of Spike NLOS and a four cell rotating launcher.

It is really pretty small:

Bulgarian Army Land Cruiser 70 with Spike NLOS Mk. 5 at HEMUS 2022. Photo credit: Petrovbg via Wikipedia

“At a weight of 1,350 kg, the launcher and eight missiles are mounted on the small vehicle, enabling the small crew to attack ground targets with pinpoint precision from 30 km away.”

This Day in Coast Guard History, March 15

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 15

US AMP (Army Mine Planter) GEN. JOHN P. STORY was built in 1919 for the Army Corps of Engineers, and was transferred to the USLHS in 1922 and renamed USLHT ACACIA (pic.5). With twin screws, a length-over-all of 172 ½ ft., she displaced 1130 tons. She was further renamed USCGC ACACIA (WAGL 200) after the USLHS was merged into the USCG on September 1, 1939. Also as part of the merger, the 9th LHD became part of the 7th CG District. The unarmed ACACIA was the only buoy tender sunk by a U-boat during WWII, on March 15, 1942.

1942 The 172-foot tender CGC Acacia was en route from Curacao, Netherlands West Indies to Antigua, British West Indies, when she was sunk by shellfire from the German submarine U-161. The entire crew of Acacia was rescued. She was the only Coast Guard buoy tender sunk by enemy action during the war.

Map of Manus and Los Negros during World War II. Source: Building the Navy’s Bases in World War II, Volume II.

1944 Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasions of Manus in the Admiralties and Emirau (St. Mathias Islands).

PB-1G, CG-77249, on runway in Argentia, Newfoundland, running up engines, International Ice Patrol, 15 February 1954. Photo No. 021554-01. Original caption states: “U.S. Coast Guard plane, PB-1G (B-17), taking off on a 9-hour patrol.”

1946 For the first time, Coast Guard aircraft supplemented the work of the Coast Guard patrol vessels of the International Ice Patrol, scouting for ice and determining the limits of the ice fields from the air.

1983 The Coast Guard retired its last HC-131A Samaritan.

1991 F/V Alaskan Monarch became trapped in the ice-encrusted Bering Sea near St. Paul, Alaska and was in danger of being swept onto the breakwater rocks outside St. Paul Harbor. CGC Storis and an HH-3 from AIRSTA Kodiak, under the command of LT Laura H. Guth, responded. After a flight of 600 miles, including a winter crossing of the Alaska Peninsula and 400 miles of open water, Guth and her crew rescued four of the six-man crew before waves crashed over the vessel and swept the two remaining crewmen into the frigid water. They both were quickly pulled from the water safely.

1997 Operation Gulf Shield began. This operation was a counterpart to the counter-narcotics Operation Frontier Shield.

“Security changes coming to Direct Access (DA) March 17” –MyCG

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Chuck Hill

The Coast Guard will implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Direct Access (DA) on Mar. 17 to improve DA’s overall cybersecurity posture.

This will change how you log into DA in the following ways:

Coast Guard members with Common Access Cards (CAC) will now use CAC credentials and follow the prompts to access DA.
Non-CAC users (retirees, annuitants, beneficiaries, and CAC users who work for other government agencies and don’t have a CGOne Network Account) will be required to perform a one-time password reset once MFA has been implemented on Mar. 17. At a later date, you will be required to log in using one-time passcodes (OTP) validated through a mobile phone authenticator application, phone call or text (SMS) message. Information will be posted on the DA login screen when this feature becomes available.

Attention Non-CAC Users: The Coast Guard is sending you guidance with pre-generated passwords via email addresses on file within DA. But the Pay and Personnel Center (PPC) estimates that there are more than 25,000 retirees and annuitants that have not saved email contact information or security questions and will not receive this guidance. If you are a non-CAC user in receipt of this article, you are encouraged to log into DA now to ensure your contact information is current. In addition, with tax filing season coming up, it’s worth downloading tax forms as soon as possible. System-wide password resets could cause delays in receiving help desk assistance after Mar. 17.

On Mar. 17, a notice with brief instructions on how to obtain a pre-generated password and perform a password reset will be located on the DA homepage for those who have not received an email. But please be aware that you will need manual assistance to reset your password, which will put you in a in line with all the DA users in a similar position.

Please note, all technical issues with DA (such as password resets) will now be completed by Product Support Service Desk. They can be contacted at 800-821-7081, Monday – Friday (6:30AM-6:30PM, EST). All other requests will continue to be handled by the PPC Customer Care Help Desk who can reached via email at PPC-DG-CustomerCare@uscg.mil or by phone at 866-772-8724.

Additional Security: As an added layer of security, you will receive email notifications any time your bank account information changes or is modified in any way. This is done to keep you informed and alert you to take any action necessary for any unauthorized changes.

Please review ALCOAST 105/25 for the complete details on the implementation of MFA here.

For additional help check out the user guides and self-service options for DA at the PPC website.

We need your help! Are you in contact with a retiree, annuitant, or beneficiary (non-CAC user)? If so, send them a link to this article to help maximize awareness.

This Day in Coast Guard History, March 14

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Chuck Hill

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

March 14

1819 The March 23, 1819 edition of the New York Evening Post reported: “The Artegan Privateer GENERAL ARTIGAS was yesterday brought into this port. The ARTIGAS sailed from Baltimore about 5 months ago, commanded by Captain Ford, with a complement of 60 men and 10 guns. They took no prizes, though they boarded a number of Portuguese vessels but permitted them to proceed unmolested. She touched at St. Domingo, there parted her cable in a gale, then proceeded on her cruise. She sprung a leak and then put into the Chesapeake, the crew then mutinied and nearly the whole of them left the vessel and went on shore. She was taken possession of by the Cutter MONROE, March 14, 1819.”

1909 At Gloucester, Massachusetts, a launch became disabled 3/4-mile southeast of the life-saving station. Surfmen manned the power lifeboat and started to assist. On the trip out a schooner was discovered anchored in a dangerous berth 1-3/4 miles southeast of the station. Surfmen put a towline on the schooner, and, with her sails drawing, she was towed into a safe anchorage.

Typical North Vietnamese Trawler photographed from an operation Market Time patrol plane, 20 June 1966. This trawler was later forced aground by the USCGC POINT LEAGUE and an estimated 250 tons of weapons were taken.

1967 CGC Point Ellis destroyed an enemy trawler in Vietnam.

1987 Coast Guard helicopters rescued the crew of the sinking Soviet freighter Komsomolets Kirgizii 220 miles off the coast of New Jersey during a gale. A HC-130 was first on the scene and stood by the listing freighter until HH-3s from Air Station Cape Cod arrived and saved the freighter’s entire 37-person crew. As a result of their efforts, President Ronald Reagan presented the Coast Guardsmen with awards at a ceremony at the White House.