1820-The Revenue cutter Louisiana captured five pirate vessels during a cruise from Florida to Cuba.1881-A rowboat with two men and a young girl was going down the Manistee River towards the harbor capsized about a hundred feet abreast of Station No…
1956-CGC Chincoteague manning Ocean Station Delta in the North Atlantic, received a distress message that the German freighter Helgs Bolten was taking on water and wished to abandon ship as soon as possible. After reaching the scene some hours later…
1883-At a quarter before 4 o’clock In the morning the two surfmen on patrol from the Plum Island Station (Second District), below Newburyport, Massachusetts, discovered a vessel ashore on the south breaker at the entrance of Newburyport Harbor…
1919-Congress passed the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the Volstead Act, on this date. The Volstead Act authorized the enforcement of the 18th Amendment, ratified on 29 January 1919. The Act authorized the Coast…
1997- The crew of the CGC Baranof confiscated two .50-caliber sniper rifles, ammunition and other military supplies that were allegedly to be used in an assassination attempt against Cuban President Fidel Castro. Four Cuban exiles were arrested…
The U.S. Coast Guard is scheduled to hold public meetings in Oakland, Calif., Oct. 27 and New York City Oct. 29 to hear comments about a proposed rulemaking for ballast water discharge standards.These meetings are the last two of six public…
1818-The RC Monroe captured the armed brig Columbia inside the Virginia Capes. Columbia had been 'cut out' of a Venezuelan fleet by pirates.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
1853-The English ship Western World grounded off Spring Lake, New Jersey, during a gale with about 600 persons on board. Everyone was rescued using equipment at the nearby station.1960-Early in the morning, SS Alcoa Corsair and SS Lorenzo…
1971-Alaska Senator Mike Gravel criticized the punishment of 18 crewmen of CGC Confidence for showing support for Greenpeace and asked the Commandant, Admiral Chester Bender, to investigate.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
The Coast Guard is participating in joint exercises with U.S. and Canadian naval forces in Washington area waters during the week of Oct. 18-24, 2009.Naval vessels will be seen practicing maritime security in and around the Strait of Juan de Fuca…
1892-After ten years of difficult and costly construction, the St. George Reef Lighthouse, built on a rock lying six miles off the northern coast of California, midway between Capes Mendocino and Bianco, was first lighted.1920-The Superintendent…
1881-The sloop Zulu Chief with four passengers and a crew of two men struck the bar off Hog Island Inlet, Virginia at a point about half a mile from the beach. The accident occurred at 11 o’clock am in plain view of the crew of Station No. 9…
1790-Contract entered into for the construction of the 'first' of the 10 revenue cutters, Massachusetts, at Newburyport, Massachusetts.1952-A Merchant Marine Detail was established at Yokohama, Japan to handle increased merchant marine problems occurring there as a result of the Korean Conflict…
1846-USRC McLane ran aground while attempting to cross the bar of the River Alvarado during the Mexican War.2001- On October 15, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had anthrax in it…
1801-Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin announced the decision to reduce 'Revenue Cutter Establishment' as near as circumstances will permit within its original limits.1943-CGC E.M. Dow grounded and was abandoned near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico…
