1882-The lookout of Station No. 10 (Louisville, Kentucky), 9th District, spotted two men and a skiff being swept toward the dam and falls of the Ohio River. He sounded the alarm and 'a boat at once shot out from the station, and reached the men in time to save them…
1801 - Four warships sent to Mediterranean to protect American commerce1815 - Commodore Stephen Decatur ( Frigate Guerriere) sails with 10 ships to suppress Mediterranean pirates' raids on U.S. shipping1844 - USS Constitution sails from…
1846-Secretary of Treasury Walker assigned Revenue Captain John A. Webster to control movements of vessels assigned to Army and to cooperate with the Navy in the War with Mexico.1896-Congress authorized the Secretary of Treasury to patrol regattas.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
1882 - Commodore Shufeldt (USS Swatara) lands in Korea to negotiate first treaty between Korea and Western power1912 - Navy establishes North Atlantic Ice Patrol following RMS Titanic disaster1965 - 30th Naval Construction Regiment activated at Danang, Vietnam(Source: Navy News Service)
1920-Coast Guard officers and enlisted personnel were granted the same pay, allowances and increases as the Navy.(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
1775 - Benedict Arnold captures British sloop and renames her Enterprise, first of many famous ships with that name1798 - Appointment of Benjamin Stoddert as first Secretary of the Navy1969 - Launch of Apollo 10, dress rehearsal for first lunar landing mission…
1999-The Coast Guard 'kept the peace' when the Makah Indian tribe hunted and killed a gray whale in Neah Bay, Washington. The Makah were guaranteed the right to hunt whales in their 1855 treaty with the U.S.(Source: USCG Historian’s)
1940 - FDR announces plans to recommission 35 more destroyers 1942 - USS Tautog (SS-199) sinks Japanese sub, I-28; while USS Triton (SS-201) sinks I-1641951 - Aircraft from carriers attack bridges between Wonsan and Hamhung, Korea1962…
1908-An Act of Congress (35 Stat. L., 160, 162) delegated to the Lighthouse Board the duty of caring for and maintaining the anchorage buoys previously placed by the United States in the harbors of New York and Philadelphia.1951- USS Valcour was rammed by the collier Thomas Tracy…
1801 - Tripoli declares war against the United States1836 - U.S. Exploring Expedition authorized to conduct exploration of Pacific Ocean and South Seas, first major scientific expedition overseas. LT Charles Wilkes USN, would lead the expedition in surveying South America…
1905- An Executive Order extended the jurisdiction of the Lighthouse Service to the noncontiguous territory of Guam Island.1952- The Coast Guard announced the establishment of an Organized Reserve Training Program, the first in U.S. Coast Guard history…
1908 - Navy Nurse Corps established.1908 - Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, later called Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, was officially established in the Territory of Hawaii as a coaling station for U.S. Navy ships transiting the Pacific Ocean.1943…
1906-In part due to the lobbying efforts of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, Congress authorized the construction of a cutter 'equipped to cruise for and destroy derelicts and obstructions to navigation' for the Revenue Cutter Service…
1780 - Fall of Charleston, SC; three Continental Navy frigates (Boston, Providence, and Ranger) captured; and one American frigate (Queen of France) sunk to prevent capture1846 - U.S. declares war against Mexico1975 - SS Mayaguez seized by Khmer Rouge and escorted to Koh Tang Island…
1898-USRC Hudson towed the crippled USS Winslow from certain destruction under the Spanish forts at Cardenas, Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Congress later conferred a Gold Medal of Honor on her commanding officer, Revenue First Lieutenant F…
