1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced Reorganization Plan II that transferred the Bureau of Lighthouses to the Treasury Department for consolidation with the Coast Guard. In all over 100 Coast Guardsmen took part in the relief efforts that covered an eight-state area. The commanding officer managed to be on the scene 1-1/2 miles offshore, when the Navy P5M landed with two minutes of fuel remaining. 1870 Congress directed that the revenue cutters on the northern and northwestern lakes, when commissioned, shall be specially charged with aiding vessels in distress on the lakes. The crew dropped two depth charges as the submarine slid past, and the explosions lifted the U-boat nearly five feet. In effecting the rescue, Captain Hamlet displayed admirable seamanship." 1991 CGC Cape Hatteras (WPB 95305) was decommissione. 2015 Her Majestys Canadian Ships Goose Bay and Shawinigan, in collaboration with the U.S. Navy and in support of the U.S. Coast Guard, assisted in seizing more than 1000 kg of cocaine while patrolling in the Caribbean Sea, as part of Operation CARIBBE. Earlier, two Japanese passengers on board committed suicide rather than surrender. The LST-202 claimed three enemy planes shot down. Effective this date, the dividing point between the 6th and 7th Lighthouse Districts on the east coast of Florida was moved northward from Hillsboro Inlet to St. Lucie Inlet to place the new trans-Florida waterway (through Lake Okeechobee) under one jurisdiction. In addition, 11 suspected narcotic smugglers were taken into custody and were transferred to the offices of the United States Attorneys for prosecution. LV-82 was commanded by Hugh M. Williams, Master. The act outlawed the importation of slaves into the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard Arctic Strategy documents our intent to pursue three key objectives: improving awareness, modernizing governance and broadening partnerships. 1984 MSO Memphis responded to what appeared to be a routine grounding when three barges being towed down river by the M/V Karman P. broke away 40 miles south of Memphis. Isla Bella was the first of two Marlin-class containerships built by NASSCO in San Diego for operation by TOTE Services in the Jones Act trade between Jacksonville, Florida and Puerto Rico. The disaster led to improved safety regulations and life-saving equipment. A motor vessel was on scene with Gaudeamus when it was found by the HC-130 and remained there until CGC Taney arrived the next day and took the boat in tow. 1878 The last true sailing cutter built for the Revenue Service, Chase (Salmon P. Chase) was completed at the shipyard of Thomas Brown of Philadelphia. Thus situated, the dreadful explosion took place, and in one instant the whole quarter deck with all of those upon it, were hurled into the air. 1882 An Act of Congress (22 Stat. The collision caused a 240-foot section of the causeway to collapse, spilling 10 cars into the water and killing five persons. 1837 Congress called for an inspection of the coast from Chesapeake Bay to the Sabine River "with regard to the location of additional light-houses, beacons, and buoys." Two were assigned to stations in the Third Coast Guard District, Sandy Hook Lifeboat Station and Eatons Neck Lifeboat station, while the third was assigned to Chatham Lifeboat Station in the First Coast Guard District. The cutter patrolled in the Arctic, furthering national strategic goals by enhancing maritime domain awareness and improving preparedness, prevention, and response capabilities in the region. 1940 Port Security responsibilities were undertaken again for the first time since World War I when President Franklin Roosevelt invoked the Espionage Act of 1917. The crew was sheltered at the station until the 13th when the keeper sent them to Boston. 1945 Japanese officials signed the articles of surrender aboard USS Missouri, officially ending World War II. 1909 At Gloucester, Massachusetts, a launch became disabled 3/4-mile southeast of the life-saving station. 2016 CGC Dependable returned to its homeport following a successful 53-day patrol, which focused on training, counter-drug, and migrant missions. The Coast Guard assumed the enforcement of the convention's requirements in the interest of safe loading. 1963 With the arrival of the ferry crew on this date to accept delivery of the HC-130B CGNR 1351 at Marietta, Georgia, the Coast Guard completed its program for the procurement of 12 long range, long endurance, four engine landplanes. 1813 Revenue Cutterman John Bearbere died of pneumonia while being held as a Prisoner of War by the British after his cutter, James Madison, was captured by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Barbadoes near Savannah, Georgia on November 24, 1812 during the War of 1812. Previously, the Lighthouse Establishment had been authorized by Congress to place, when considered necessary, a lightship or other suitable warning of danger on any wreck or temporary obstruction to the entrance of any harbor or in the channel of any bay or sound. Comanche and Magnolia successfully removed all 43 survivors from the disabled Kokoku Maru, all of whom were subsequently delivered safely ashore. 1854 Congress appropriated $12,500 for purchase of boats for life-saving purposes at a number of designated ports on the Great Lakes. An hour later they arrived and launched the surfboat. In Antarctica, Polar Star broke a navigable shipping lane through 12 miles of ice in McMurdo Sound, encountering ice up to 10 feet in thickness. 1942 The Navy credited CGC Ingham with attacking and sinking the submerged U-626 south of Greenland. Alert's crew members successfully conducted a 70-day patrol traveling more than 12,600 miles scouring the eastern Pacific Ocean for illicit traffickers using their two small boats and armed helicopter from Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron from Jacksonville, Florida. The life-saving crew returned to the station. The dead included the keeper of the station, Marshall N. Eldridge, and six of his surfmen. 2013 The U.S. Coast Guard and Makah Tribal Council signed a Memorandum of Agreement to reaffirm their integral partnership, cooperation, and coordination in pollution prevention and response. The Aviation Machinist ratings merged with the Aviation Structural Mechanic ratings to form the Aviation Maintenance Technician rating with the designator AMT. While patrolling the Aleutian Islands, the crew came to the aid of a fishing vessel crew following an engine-room fire. The sloop drifted up on the beach and became a total wreck. Captain's pay increased to $1200 per annum, First Lieutenant's to $960, Second Lieutenant's to $860, and Third Lieutenant's to $790. WebAbout Our Coalition. The Secretary of Transportation authorized the involuntary recall of 300 reservists. Warrior alsosaved 22 lives on its own. The crew towed a 66-foot disabled fishing vessel toward shore and then transferred the vessel and survivors to a Coast Guard Station Coos Bay 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew, approximately 45 miles offshore Coos Bay, Oregon. The Cowslip was repaired and returned to service. 2008 The Coast Guard commissioned the new 418-foot Legend-Class cutter CGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) on this date. 8, Ninth District (Cleveland), discovered the accident and towed her safely into the harbor. 1876 The first ever examination for Revenue Cutter cadets was held in Washington, D.C. 1965 Division 13, Coast Guard Squadron One (RONONE) was established for service in Vietnam. The tug Tyee with a barge load of logs in tow was attempting to cross out. The cutter, which had been dressed in "rainbow fashion," extended to the President "all honors as prescribed by the Regulations, Revenue Cutter Service." 2001 Coast Guard forces, including the cutters Chandeleur and Farallon, as well as aircraft from Air Station Miami and boat crews from Station Miami Beach rescued 185 Haitian migrants from the grossly overloaded 31-foot sailboat Simapvivsetz off Old Rhodes Key, Florida. 2015 CGC Maui returned to her homeport in Bahrain after a prolonged period supporting the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) counter-terrorism and maritime security task force, Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150), patrolling the Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea from December 2014 to February 2015. 1996 The Coast Guard commissioned CGC Juniper (WLB 201) on this date in 1996. The cruise ship's Halon system put out the fire but she was drifting dangerously close to shore. Under the Presidents Reorganization Plan No. The pumps were manned while another gang went to work bailing. All hands were saved. 1799 Congress passed "An act respecting quarantines and health laws", superseding the Act passed on May 27, 1796 (1 Stat. Within just two days, Sequoias crew restored and verified all 14 aids were on station and functioning properly, allowing for the reopening of the port and the delivery of vital relief aid by military and merchant ships. 1983 The State Department forwarded a request for assistance from the United Arab Emirates to help prepare for an oil spill cleanup in the Persian Gulf. For 10 more days, Coast Guard air and surface units controlled a dangerous situation by spreading foam to reduce the fire hazard of leaking aviation gas, directing harbor traffic, pumping out the damaged vessel, and moving her to a safe dock. 1915 Secretary of the Treasury was authorized by Congress to detail cutters to enforce anchorage regulations in all harbors, rivers, bays, and other navigable waters of United States. In mid-October while sailing the passage between Cuba and Mexico, Spencers crew rescued 24 passengers from a disabled vessel that was caught in 12-15-foot seas. 1909 Muskeget, Massachusetts: the schooner Vigilant parted moorings and stranded one mile south of the station. This achievement marked the CAMPBELL's Arctic deployment for the history books as the crew also navigated through waters unknown to the modern day Coast Guard. The 281-foot tankship was breaking in half in high seas and sinking approximately eight miles ESE of Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, with seven POB. The debris they picked up was used by the Civil Aeronautics Board in its determination of the cause of the mishap. Significantly, the crew supported the relief efforts in response to the earthquake in Haiti in August, conducting two separate port assessments on Haitian ports to ensure the harbors were safe for vessels to deliver vital aid and assistance to the region following the disaster. 1989 M/V Aoyagi Maru ran aground on a reef in Lost Harbor, Alaska. Over the course of six hours, Dependable and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force searched for and located the sailing vessel Change of Life aground on a reef south of Great Inagua, Bahamas. Mellon departed Seattle May 10, 2014 to conduct SAR and fisheries missions throughout the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. The teams conducted law enforcement boardings from Navy vessels for the first time in history. 1947 CGC Bibb rescued all 62 passengers and seven crew members of the transatlantic flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen in the mid-Atlantic after the flying boat made an emergency landing near the cutter. 1991 Thousands of Haitian migrants began fleeing their homeland after the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, prompting one of the largest SAR operations in Coast Guard history. 1947 Congress approved Public Law 219 which provided for the integration of the personnel of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation into the regular military organization of the Coast Guard. "U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps airborne and seaborne craft, intelligence, technology, surveillance, and manpower now are used to augment operations by the U.S. Coast Guard, Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Border Patrol, and the U.S. Attorney's Office. Coast Guard Disaster Response Units conducted SAR duties and assisted local authorities. 1943 During a fierce convoy battle near Greenland, CGC Ingham rescued 33 survivors from the torpedoed troopship SS Henry Mallory, while CGC Bibb rescued 202. Reliance's efforts directly contributed to the prevention of 14 metric tons of contraband from reaching American shores. 1898 The cutter Morrill participated in an engagement at Havana, Cuba on May 6-7, 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Stratton Coast Guardsmen worked closely with the communities in isolated locations of Point Lay, Gamble and Barrow, Alaska. 1953Coast Guard forces assisted civilian authorities in evacuating 191 persons from the Coxuille Valley flood area. The light in the Minot's Ledge Lighthouse was first shown. 1903 The first wireless message was received on board a Revenue cutter. The 24-member crew of CGC Adak plucked the Iraqi sailors from the sea after they had jumped overboard when their patrol boat was destroyed by coalition forces. Call. During the next four days Coast Guard aircraft flew 33 sorties for a total of 55 hours. The cutter also rescued 50 survivors from a torpedoed Norwegian freighter. 1997 The crew of 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. CGC Forward responded and was designated as the on-scene commander. These three cutters were relieved of "garbage duty" in June by the cutters Snohomish and Chinook. The Secretary of the Navy, at the request of the Joint Chiefs of Staff early in 1944, established the Air-Sea Rescue Agency, an inter-department and inter-agency body, for study and improvement of rescue work with the Commandant of Coast Guard as its head. [The Nautical Beginnings of Americas War on Drugs, American History, November 17, 2019. https://www.historynet.com/online-exclusive-the-nautical-beginnings-of-americas-war-on-drugs/]. 58 was sinking. Reliance crew supported the U.S. Coast Guard 7th District throughout their patrol, aiding in missions to interdict and disrupt the flow of illegal drugs and migrant trafficking while supporting national security and strengthening relationships with regional partners throughout the Caribbean. 1954 The "Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1948", commonly known as the "Revised International Rules of the Road", became law. The Oak Island crew reached the vessel at 10:30 am and the Fire Island crew a half hour later. Philip B. Eaton, USCG, commanded Chatham Naval Air Station and he piloted one of two HS-1 seaplanes that attempted to bomb and machine gun a surfaced U-boat off the coast of New England after the U-boat had shelled a tug and barges four miles off Cape Cod. Diligence's crew patrolled the Windward Pass between Cuba, the Bahamas, and Haiti alongside interagency and international partners to prevent and respond to dangerous illegal maritime migration and narcotics smuggling from Central and South America. A coasting schooner struck the Metis, which had a full passenger list and cotton cargo bound for New England textile mills. 1921 Congress passed the "Emergency Immigration Act of 1921" (ch. The two boat crews from Station Quillayute River and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Port Angeles were directed to respond to the sinking vessel. Another officer, Second Lieutenant (Eng.) Congress gave the merchant mariners veterans' status and tasked the Coast Guard with administering the discharges. 1836 Congress authorized pay increases for the officers in the Revenue Cutter Service. Heavy automatic weapons fire from the beach prevented the boarding and two crew and one Army passenger were wounded aboard Point Grey. I am inspired daily by the tenacity and professionalism of this crew, said Cmdr. 1941 The Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and surrounding Army Air Force airfields in Hawaii. After reaching the scene some hours later, the cutter found that the high winds and 25-foot seas made it impossible to launch lifeboats. All vacancies were then filled by promotion from within the Service for the first time. ", 1939 "At the end of the year, the total number of lighthouse tenders was 65, of which 64 were in commission and 1 was out of commission and advertised for sale. Mellon volunteers tutored more than 120 Toyo Himeji High School students to help teach them English. COTP New York responded. This became the largest Coast Guard operation ever undertaken to date since World War II. 1858 The Secretary of the Treasury appointed a three-man board of U.S. Revenue Marine officers to consider a lifeboat design best adapted for life-saving work. The responders from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Coast Guard, and Glacier Bay Tours and Cruises (which operated the vessel) then successfully refloated her and towed her to drydock. Gallatin's patrol highlights include: three cocaine seizures and four go-fast vessel disruptions; transfer of marijuana seized May 10 by a Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment aboard the Royal Netherlands Navy Vessel HNMLS Friesland; search and rescue mission of passengers aboard a sinking panga March 15; maritime exercises and professional exchange missions with Dutch Naval Vessel HNMLS Friesland and U.S. Navys Mayport, Florida-based HSV Swift; and port calls in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Bocas Del Toro, Panama; and Roatan, Honduras. I-87 Thruway - NY City Line to Exit 7A (Saw Mill River Parkway) I-87 Thruway - Exit 8/8A (I-287 CWE/NY Route 119) to Exit 15A (Sloatsburg - Suffern) I-95 - New England Thruway; I-287 - Cross Westchester Expressway; GSP - Garden State Parkway Clearance was granted and CGC Citrus was ordered to proceed and assist in fighting the fire. 1918 Congress passed the Migratory Bird Act and the Coast Guard became responsible for the Act's enforcement after the 1936 passage of the "Act to Define Jurisdiction of Coast Guard.". Operation Coal Shovel is a bi-national domestic icebreaking effort covering the St. Lawrence Seaway, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, the Detroit/St. Breshwood turned McClelland over to the State of Louisiana, where the cutter ended up in Confederate service. The plane crushed several cars on the bridge. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The formation for service in Vietnam of Coast Guard Squadron One (RONONE) was announced. The consumer in the most inland State derives the same advantagethat he does who lives in a maritime State.". The request byus was to shut the Delaware River down to all traffic due to crude oil on fire extending completely across the Delaware River. 1919 President Woodrow Wilson signed Executive Order 3160 which returned the Coast Guard to the administrative control of the Treasury Department from the Navy after World War I. There were 527 Chinese nationals and 10 crewmembers aboard. All of the survivors returned on board the cutter to Norfolk, Virginia, while a tug towed Helg Bolten to the Azores. The Ecstasy then sailed for Miami and the Celebration, with one engine then on-line, sailed to Freeport for repairs. This led to the largest increase in the size and responsibilities of the service to date. Another got a line flung to him from the wreck and was taken aboard. Aboard the aircraft were CAPT Martin Niemeroff, USPHS and an obstetrics nurse from Munson Medical Center. 1967 The commander of all Soviet fishing vessels in the Far East, Evgeniy Gromov, invited representatives from the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries to meet aboard the Soviet vessel Olivtorka off Kodiak, Alaska. Other Coast Guard assets began arriving soon thereafter to assist in the recovery efforts, including the CGC Oak and aircraft from AIRSTA Clearwater. The oil platform, which burned for more than a day, sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, 2010. 2001 The first set of the newly authorized Helicopter Rescue Swimmer insignia, or "wings", were presented to the senior rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard, Master Chief Aviation Survival Technician (AST) Keith Jensen, at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C. 1917 An Executive Order extended the jurisdiction of the Lighthouse Service to the non-contiguous territory of the American Virgin Islands. This action was ordered soon after the break in diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Finland. Disch was rescued, but Gullickson was lost at sea and his remains were never recovered. 1964 The Israeli passenger liner Shalom and the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali collided off Point Pleasant, New Jersey in a dense fog. During the boardings, Mellon law enforcement team members educated fishermen about the importance of long-term fish stock conservation. of marijuana. 1969 For extreme and heroic daring on the morning of October 5, 1969, while on authorized leave, Coast Guardsman James P. Grier rescued two persons and attempted to rescue a third from drowning in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean at Rockport Harbor, MA. Coast Guard units assisted state and local agencies in rescue and relief operations. The initiation of this campaign led to the Navys request for Coast Guard vessels and crews to participate in river and coastal patrols during the Vietnam War. 1948 The list of nominations for appointments and promotions of Coast Guard officers transmitted to Congress by the President on this date represented the first permanent advancements of Coast Guard regular officers since the summer of 1942. 1860 The light in the massive stone Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, which was built on the original site of the one lost in 1851, was exhibited. Upon successfully locating the burning fishing vessel, the helicopter crew guided NORTHLAND's small boat team to the location. 1949 The tanker Gulfstream collided with icebreaker CGC Eastwind. All 13 officers and 148 (out of 186) enlisted men on board were killed. 1976 The 120-foot ferry vessel George Prince, carrying 96 passengers and crew along with approximately 30 vehicles, collided with the Norwegian tank vessel Frosta in the Mississippi River about 20 miles above New Orleans. It consisted of three cutters and a Navy vessel. 1966 Coast Guard Explosive Loading Detachments (ELDs) 1 & 2 arrived in South Vietnam and were assigned to U.S. Army logistics commands. Of the vessels in commission, 42 were steam-propelled, 18 had diesel engines, and 4 had diesel-electric drive. 1966 Division 13 of Coast Guard Squadron One (RONONE) departed for Cat Lo. The technologies included an unmanned aerial system, an unmanned underwater vehicle, an oil recovery skimmer, and a remotely operated vehicle. To enhance detection of fishing vessels, Rush embarked a helicopter and aviation detachment from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point. Data collected by the NAIS supports the nations maritime interests by promoting vessel and port safety through collision avoidance, and through detection, traffic identification, and classification of vessels out to 2,000 nautical miles from shore. Something ought to be done about it. The Coast Guard News Release published on February 4, 1976 regarding their announcement noted that: Of the four largest federal service academies (Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard) the Coast Guard Academy is the first to offer an appointment to a woman. (USCG News Release No. The Coast Guard also investigated the accident. Many more stations and depots were severely damaged as well. Twelve women two officers and 10 enlisted served on board each cutter. Eleven Coast Guard crewmen were killed. After the American War for Independence, Congress sold the surviving ships of the Continental Navy and released the seamen and officers. Olsen remained in the engine room during all these maneuvers, stayed at the controls under perilous conditions, and rendered commendable service. Seventeen Coast Guard personnel were killed. 1838 Congress passed the first legislation "to provide better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." Most of the crew consisted of students from Northwestern University. Arctic domain. When fire threatened a trainload of TNT, these men repaired the track and moved the train to safety, thus preventing further disaster. The survivors were later rescued by the USS Halsey Powell (DD-686). Another leg of their patrol included domestic fisheries boardings in the American Samoa EEZ and high seas boardings under the authorities established by the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. Coast Guard units responded and prevented the entire cargo from spilling, cleaned up the oil which did spill, and conducted an investigation into the causes of the accident. 2014 CGC Mackinaw, home-ported in Cheboygan, Michigan, conducted an escort on Lake Superior near Whitefish Point. 1968 FN Heriberto S. Hernandez, a CGC Point Cypress (WPB 82326) crewman, was killed in action in Vietnam. 1963 CGC Tupelo, four Navy and one Ohio State Highway patrol helicopters, CG-44002D, three ice skiffs and crews from Marblehead Lifeboat Station, Sandusky Light Station, Lorain Lifeboat Station, and a panel truck from Toledo CG Moorings were dispatched to rescue 150 persons reported adrift on an ice floe off Reno Beach, Lake Erie, 10 miles east of Toledo, Ohio during a severe storm that had winds gusting to 40 knots. 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. CGC Point Arden was the first on scene. Numerous Coast Guard units conducted search and rescue operations and then aided in recovery operations. 1968 The United States Air Force requested additional LORAN-C coverage in Southeast Asia and by December 27, 1968 the Coast Guard had received authorization to proceed with the project. Coast Guardsmen from CGC Morrill landed to provide assistance. 2014 CGC Kukui returned from a 46-day law enforcement patrol where they exercised bilateral agreements and enforced fisheries regulations across the Pacific. Fortunately, they were discovered by the Nausett Station keeper, pulling vigorously to keep away from the surf. Valiant responded to a surge of illegal migration attempts in the Florida Straits following the U.S. government announcement to normalize relations with Cuba. Previous laws referred only to "revenue cutters". 1983For the first time in history a U.S. Navy warship with a Coast Guard LEDET on board fired on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel to force it to heave to. At the outbreak of hostilities and throughout the conflict, she operated in the strategically critical and politically sensitive Khawr Abd Allah and Shaat Al Arab Waterways, providing force protection to the massive coalition fleet, securing Iraqi oil terminals, and preventing the movement of weapons, personnel, or equipment by Saddam Hussein's regime or other guerilla or terrorist forces. 1941 The Coast Guard Reserve was established after Congress passed the Auxiliary & Reserve Act. They launched the surfboat and went to the sloops assistance. 1799 Congress authorized cutters and boats to be "distinguished from other vessels by an ensign and pendant" with the marks thereon prescribed by the President of the United States, to fire on vessels who refused to bring to after the pendant and ensign had been hoisted and a gun fired as a signal, masters to be indemnified from any penalties or actions for damages for so doing, and be admitted to bail if anyone is killed or wounded by such firing. Eastwind and Southwind had gone farther north and returned under their own power than any vessel ever before. 1993Communications Station Guam received a mayday broadcast from the M/V East Wood. He was the first recorded Life-Saving Serviceman to be awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal. Coast Guard aircraft from Air Station Argentia, Newfoundland, were first on the scene after the freighter issued an SOS on February 18th. The weather quickly deteriorated, however, and they radioed for assistance. This was the first time that the wartime technical secrets of radar and LORAN were generally disclosed to the public. It was the first of the new National Security Cutters built to replace the aging 378-foot Hamilton-Class High Endurance Cutters (WHECs). Additionally, commanding officers of vessels were authorized to administer oaths of allegiance and other oaths for service requirements in Alaska. The contracts were awarded to MetalCraft Marine U.S. (Clayton, New York), SAFE Boats International (Port Orchard, Washington), Silver Ships, Inc. (Theodore, Alabama), and William E. Munson Company (Burlington, Washington). 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. Ames of Rockland, Maine, was bound from Perth Amboy to Boston with a crew of seven persons. This was only the second time a U.S. surface vessel had reached 90 degrees north unaccompanied. 1883 At 1 oclock in the afternoon the crew of the Quoddy Head Station discovered a schooner at anchor. 2013 The Coast Guard opened its seasonal forward operating location (FOL) in Kotzebue on October 12, 2013 in preparation for the anticipated increase of maritime activities in Western Alaska and the Bering Strait. 58, and upon arrival at the scene passed a towline. On board were seven officers and 52 enlisted men. 1925 Congress authorized the Coast Guard to assist in the enforcement of the Alaskan Game Law. She was out from Saint John, NB and bound for New York with a cargo of lumber and a crew of four persons. Bibb then rescued 33 from the torpedoed SS Kalliopi. This act, authorizing the president to invoke the Espionage Act of 1917, tasked the Coast Guard once again with the port security mission. 1932 Cadets first moved into the newly constructed Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut. 1984 CGC Westwind was heavily damaged by ice in Antarctic's Weddell Sea. 1940The ocean station program was formally established on this date under orders from President Franklin Roosevelt. The vessel was lost. Ambassador to Haiti, the Honorable Pamela White; the Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, the Honorable Brian Shukan; the Chief of the Haitian Coast Guard, Commissaire Joseph Jean-Marie Wagnac; and other government representatives. During their deployment, the cutter and crew covered more than 11,500 miles on a counter-drug enforcement patrol in the Eastern Pacific, including patrolling waters off the coast of Central America. Despite the strenuous efforts of his teammates, Petty Officer CULBERTSON perished in this gallant rescue attempt." After sighting 10 survivors in two rafts 110 miles off shore, the Albatross crew directed CGC Yocona to the scene, where a successful night rescue was effected. The vessel, under Coast Guard supervision, was safely floated off the reef some 144 hours later. 1995 Hurricane Marilyn made landfall, cutting a path of destruction across the U.S. Virgin Islands. Using information provided by the aircrew, Steadfast was able to vector the cutters Over-the-Horizon boat to intercept and conduct a law enforcement boarding of the suspect vessel. Barracuda was the first vessel of the new 87-foot Marine Predator class patrol boats built by Bollinger Shipyards for the Coast Guard to replace the venerable 82-foot Point Class patrol boats. During the patrol, Reliances crew intercepted one vessel attempting to smuggle approximately 1,132 lbs. Coast Guard HC-144A, No. District 7 got a "Bravo Zulu" from Attorney General Edwin Meese. His courage and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard.". The Act authorized the Coast Guard to prevent the maritime importation of illegal alcohol. Navy aircraft that had been shot down by Chinese anti-aircraft fire. Another man arrived and took over the rescue. Other vessels pulled 13 survivors from the water and transferred them to the Coast Guard craft. Fuger, Jr., USCG. However, only 143 were called to duty. 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order making 2,100 US Coast Guard officers and men available to man four transports, USS Leonard Wood, Hunter Liggett, Joseph T. Dickman, and Wakefield, along with 22 other ships manned by US Navy personnel. She then returned to action. 1986 A fire broke out at the Bayonne, New Jersey transfer facility. The master advised that the vessel was foundering and that 45 men were abandoning ship in four lifeboats 665 miles west of Cape Flattery, WA. They were Assistant Keepers Joseph Wilson and Joseph Antoine who maintained their station, ringing the lighthouse's bell, until waves swept the tower away. This force initially consisted of five Coast Guard 311-footers used to support Market Time operations. The Coast Guard vessels safely transported to New York City all 325 passengers and crew from the Mandalay which sank soon after the collision. On May 16, MSO St. Louis closed all 366 miles of the Missouri River to all traffic. This patrol directly followed an 89-day dry-dock at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland. These were the first ships to have alternating current, synchronous motor for propulsion the whole ship ran off the main turbine. 2012 CGC Healy, 1982 The first aircraft of the newest addition to the Coast Guard's air fleet, the HU-25A Guardian, was dedicated and christened at Aviation Training Center Mobile. 1897 The Overland Expedition, consisting of three officers from the Revenue Cutter Service, departed from the cutter Bear off Nunivak Island to rescue 300 whalers trapped in the ice at Point Barrow, Alaska. 1934Surfboats and lifeboats from Coast Guard stations Shark River, Squan Beach, Sandy Hook, and others responded to a deadly fire aboard the liner Morro Castle, rescuing 129 survivors. He was awarded a Bronze Star with the combat "V" device for his actions. The keeper was notified by telephone and the life-savers, in surfboat, proceeded to the scene. 1882 At 8 in the morning, the three-masted schooner J.P. Decamdres, bound for Milwaukee with a cargo of cord-wood and railroad ties, stranded about one mile north of the life-saving station at the entrance to Milwaukee Harbor (No. 2019The cargo vesselGolden Ray capsized and caught fire off the Georgia coast soon after departing the Port of Brunswick, about 70 miles south of Savannah. Coast Guard units, including reservists called-up specifically for this operation, maintained security zones and ensured the safe loading of the vessels. 2013 Coast Guard Group/Air Station North Bend, located out of North Bend, Oregon, was officially renamed Sector North Bend, "to match the Coast Guard standards of mission support and execution." Two of her crew were killed by near misses. The keeper then telephoned for a tug and lighter, and upon their arrival all hands set to work until 11 p.m. saving about 1,000 feet of lumber. Lewis was a contractor who almost by himself a virtually controlled the administration of the lighthouse system. The life-saving crew went to work without delay and carried out her anchors and succeeded in saving the vessel. There were no casualties. Find stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Japanese aircraft attacked the invasion fleet, hitting LST-167 with two bombs that killed 10 of her crew and wounded 10 more. The 24 remaining crewmen abandoned ship. We feature Walmart Wardrobes, dressers deals regularly, and have the latest weekly flyers with Walmart Wardrobes, dressers deals available as soon as theyre out.. .. Sorbus Dresser By the time she returned to Baltimore on May 7, 1969 she had become only the second cutter in Coast Guard history to circumnavigate the globe. In true Coast Guard tradition, the LORAN station's CO borrowed a truck and an 18-foot boat to assist. They ran an anchor to keep the vessel from working farther on, and waited for the flood tide. New York Region. L., 825, 826, 827) that created the Department of Commerce and Labor provided for the transfer of the Lighthouse Service and the Steamboat Inspection Service from the Treasury Department. A U.S. Air Force weather plane spotted both pilots in the water and, within two hours of collision, the Mendota rescued them. The Pacific Star then sank after being scuttled by her crew. The strike teams stayed on site to monitor the cleanup. View our Pet-Friendly vacation rentals below. Two significant points of the program were that they limited enlisted careers to 30 years of active service and established "professional growth points" for paygrades E-4 through E-9, which had to be attained in order to remain on active duty. The pump provided by Dallas, however, failed to work properly. There were 1,517 lost including 103 women and 53 children out of total passenger and crew of 2,207. President Jefferson had ordered an embargo against most European imports and exports to protest the harassment of U.S. sailors by warring European powers. A Coast Guard HU-16 was dispatched to medevac the patient, Mildred "Madaket Millie" Jewett, a long-time friend of the Coast Guard and an honorary CWO4. The cutters commanding officer, LTJG Eugene J. Hickey, rescued a survivor who turned out to be a key VC leader of the Rung Sat Secret Zone. L., 181, 185) laid down certain restrictions, by providing that the construction of the large number of new lighthouses, lightships, etc., for which this law was appropriating the necessary funds, would not be begun until examined by Board of Navy Commissioners. Also, the aids to navigation on the entire Mississippi River system were placed in charge of a civilian lighthouse engineer as superintendent. Thirty-seven Navy sailors perished. Without a moments hesitation, he plunged into the water and succeeded in grasping Ryan by the hair and brought him safely to the shore. Her crew saved 38 lives, including 11 Iraqi smugglers when their vessel sank in a storm off UAE. All told seventy-four persons lost their lives. These cutters were built to replace the 110-foot Island-Class WPBs. CGC Munro, on a diplomatic mission to Tokyo, joined in the international SAR effort but no survivors were found. Coast Guardsmen from three nearby stations rescued the minesweeper's crew with a breeches buoy. A U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft detected the 40-foot semi-submersible vessel more than 200-miles south of Mexico. 1942 The U.S. Maritime Service was transferred back to the War Shipping Administration after being under Coast Guard administration since February 28, 1942. CG-82336, based at Tacoma, proceeded immediately to the scene to assist the first department in fighting the blaze. 1967 CGC Point Gammon destroyed an enemy trawler in Vietnam. ", 1939 "Lightships were maintained on 30 stations during the year. Rush departed in July 2014 and spent two months conducting operations in the Central and Western Pacific. A tremendous sea was running, and the wind exceeded 55 miles per hour. With the override, Congress insisted that the executive branch get the legislatures approval before commissioning any new military craft. 1958 The Coast Guard LORAN Station at Johnston Island began transmitting on a 24-hour basis, thus establishing a new LORAN rate in the Central Pacific. Point Welcome's executive officer, LTJG Ross Bell, two other crewmen, GM2 Mark D. McKenney, and FA Houston J. Davidson, a Vietnamese liaison officer, LTJG Do Viet Vien, and a freelance journalist, Mr. Timothy J. 1946 The Coast Guard returned to operation under the Treasury Department after the end of World War II. Operation Nanook was made up of two phases, Tuugaalik and Tatigiit. This "retriever" technique used swimmers clad in wet suits to swim to victims in the water and secure a line to them so they could then be hauled onto the ship. When she began breaking up, the ship's commanding officer decided to beach at Cape Elizabeth. 1798 Secretary Benjamin Stoddert, first Secretary of the Navy, sent the first instructions to cutters acting in cooperation with the Navy in support of the Quasi-War with France, via the various collectors of customs. 1917 The French freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with 5,000 tons of high explosives, collided with the Norwegian steamer Imo in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1982 Coast Guard vessels escorted the nation's first Trident submarine, USS Ohio, into its home port at Naval Submarine Base Bangor, providing security for the sub's transit. They carry the distinction of being the first American servicemen to board an enemy warship underway at sea since the War of 1812. 2020 CGC Diligencedeparted Wilmington, North Carolina for the last time. 2014 The Coast Guard awarded three firm fixed-price contracts for preliminary and contract design for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) acquisition project. Between 150 and 200 boats were beached and many more were either capsized or otherwise in distress. She returned to the U.S. in August and arrived at Governors Island on August 28. They boarded 26 fishing vessels from March 2 until April 5. 1920 The Superintendent of the 5th Lighthouse District inspected the aids to navigation "in New River Inlet and Bogue Sound, North Carolina by hydroplane in two hours, which would have required at least four days by other means of travel, owning to the inaccessibility of the aids inspected.". 1944 The U-225 torpedoed and sank the Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort USS Leopold (DE-319) off Iceland. While ashore, Sequoias medical personnel attended to several injuries and medical ailments amongst the islands 500 residents, including cleaning wounds and delivering much needed medical supplies to the island's in-resident medical assistant. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. 1978 Coast Guard units from the First and Third Districts responded to a severe winter storm in New England, including stations providing shelter to displaced families and Coast Guard four-wheel drive vehicles serving as ambulances while an amphibious vehicle was the only means of transportation from the mainland from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, transporting nine people to safety from flooded areas. As they approached the shoreline, the three-man crew of the go-fast jumped overboard and escaped but a TACLET seized the abandoned Goza Now and her illicit cargo. A CG HH-3F rescued the first person from the stern of the tankship and a second crewman fell off the stern while attempting to jump into the rescue basket. Eventually, through the efforts of MSO Memphis, Gulf Strike Team, Atlantic Strike Team, National Strike Force Dive Team, and the Navy Superintendent of Salvage, as well as a private salvage firm, the barge's cargo was lightered and the barge itself saved. 1799 Congress authorized revenue cutter officers to board all ships of the United States within four leagues of the U.S., if bound for the U.S., and then search and examine them, certifying manifest, sealing hatches, and remaining on board until they arrived in port. The cutter deployed with an oil spill recovery system in the event the regime of Saddam Hussein committed any acts of environmental terrorism. Nineteen tanker crewmen were killed in the collision which sliced the tanker into two pieces. 1881 At 4 a.m. the patrolman from Station No. Nantucket I was the last of the U.S. lightships and the last of the Nantucket Shoals lightships that watched over that specific area since June of 1854. 1980 Boats with Cuban migrants on board began departing Mariel, Cuba. An HU-16 aircraft and CGC Cape Shoalwater were dispatched to assist. About 35 tons of marijuana were discovered on board and Ranger's nine crew were arrested and the vessel seized. 1868 By Act of Congress (15 Stat. 1979 Coast Guard HH-3F helicopter CG-1432 crashed 180 miles southeast of Cape Cod, killing four of its five occupants. Since re-commissioning in December of 1992 following a fleet renovation and modernization initiative, Jarvis participated in Alaskan fisheries patrols, counter-narcotics patrols in the Eastern Pacific, Western Pacific capacity building, and exercises with U.S. and foreign navies. It is said that she has also munitions of war on board." 1978 CGC Acushnet changed designation from WAGO to WMEC "to allow for the increased multi-mission utilization of the vessel." Participants were awarded Certificates of Heroism from the Massachusetts Humane Society and gold medals, minted to commemorate the rescue, by Congressional resolution, February 24, 1873. The LRI-II can carry up to 15 passengers, including crew, and safely operate in seas up to 13 feet.". Less than 24 hours later, Dependable, along with Her Majestys Bahamian Ship Leon Livingston Smith rescued 10 Cuban migrants who had been stranded for 10 days on Anguilla Cay near Caysal Bank in the Florida Straits. 1961 After an Air Force B-52G [serial number 58-196??] Fifty-one aircraft from all services and 18 surface vessels participated in the search. The Coast Guard responded to calls for assistance and rescued more than 200 people from danger. A number of the Coast Guard stations in the area sustained damage, some of it severe. 1883 The sloop Madge Schults capsized as she was passing in through Rockaway Inlet, about half a mile distant from the Rockaway Point Station (Third District). 1970 Two 378-foot cutters, CGC Sherman and Rush, combined with USS Endurance to attack and sink a North Vietnamese trawler attempting to smuggle arms into South Vietnam. The LEDET seized the Nataly I when the team discovered 24,325 pounds of cocaine hidden on board, making this the largest U.S. maritime seizure of cocaine to date. 1953 CGC Coos Bay, on Ocean Station Echo, about half-way between Bermuda and the Azores, rescued the crew of 10 from the U.S. Navy patrol plane that was forced to ditch in the Atlantic Ocean. 1967 At the request of the U.S. Navy, five Coast Guard high endurance cutters (WHECs) were commissioned as Coast Guard Three (RONTHREE) at Pearl Harbor for service in Vietnam. 1905 "To evaluate its use in lighthouse work, radio equipment was installed experimentally on Nantucket Lightship in August of 1901. The boarding team discovered bales of cocaine in some of the containers on board and then seized the vessel. His award citation noted: "This rescue was made extremely difficult and hazardous owing to high seas, which threatened to send the two vessels crashing together. 1982Coast Guard 8th District units responded to the flooding of the Calcasieu River near Lake Charles, Louisiana. 2015 CGC Steadfast returned to its homeport of Astoria after a two-month Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) deployment. Coast Guardsmen assisted with the cleanup and safety operations as well as provided technical assistance. CGC Cowslip immediately proceeded on orders from Portland to assist. 1881The light was first shown at Tillamook Lighthouse, located 19 miles south of the Columbia River entrance. 2000 CGC Thetis seized F/V Viviana II which was grossly overloaded with 234 Ecuadorean migrants. 5, Eleventh District, Lake Michigan. Thus, Yeaton was first on the list, having command of the cutter in the northernmost port. CGC Sebago was contacted by radio and relieved Bibb of the tow. White and Boggs had actually attacked the U-171, which reported in her war diary as having been attacked by an unidentified aircraft in the very location that White reported attacking a U-boat. January 4. Other duties performed by these vessels were placing practice targets, buoys to mark wrecks of torpedoed vessels, and other marks for military purposes, as well as being employed on patrols and special duty assignments. The big cutter struck the U-boat with a glancing blow and one of the submarine's hydroplanes sliced open Campbell's hull, flooding the engine room. CGCs Forward, Mohawk, and Tahoma were the first U.S. assets to arrive on scene at Port au Prince, with Forward arriving the morning of January 13, 2010 and Mohawk arriving in the afternoon. Cutters Tampa and Cahoone also responded. 1929 The most notable incident from which international complications resulted during the Prohibition era was that of the schooner Im Alone of Nova Scotia, a vessel built for the rum trade. 1876 Nuova Ottavia, an Italian vessel, grounded near the Jones Hill North Carolina Life-Saving Station. The smaller vessel, the British schooner Dart, was boarded first. 1934 CGCs Daphne, Hermes, Perseus, Aurora, and Calypso stood out from New York harbor, bound for their new duty station on the West Coast. The embarked team worked with Healy crew to conduct various evolutions, including deploying and recovering sea gliders, underwater sensors and acoustic buoys, throughout the marginal and pack ice zones as part of the Arctic Mobile Observing System. 1957 The German training barque Pamir with 90 persons on board, including 54 German naval cadets, foundered and sank in extremely rough seas 500 miles west of the Azores. Two HH-3F helicopters from Air Station San Diego transported 180 persons to safety during the two-day operation. 1943 CG-58012 exploded and sank off Manomet Point, Massachusetts. On October 21, 1921, Major Edwin McClellan, Officer-in-Charge, Historical Section, Headquarters Marine Corps, sent a memorandum to Major General Commandant John A. Lejeune, suggesting that the original birthday on November 10, 1775,be declared a Marine Corps holiday to be celebrated throughout the Corps. This patrol began May 25, 2020, when the cutter departed Wilmington, North Carolina for the last time. .Patrol highlights include law enforcement boardings, search and rescue operations as well as successfully completing Tailored Ships Training Availability.". Carl C. von Paulsen, a pioneering Coast Guard aviator, and his crew of four rescued a man during a gale off the coast of Florida while flying in the Coast Guard seaplane. All of the other fishery seizures prior to this were of vessels that had violated territorial seas (TS) or Contiguous Fishing Zone (CFZ). The boardings verified compliance with WCPFC conservation management measures and specifications for the marking and identification of fishing vessels. 1808 Subsistence for Army officers was fixed at 20 cents per ration and later that year it was applied to all officers of the revenue cutters. While anchored, Valiant crew hosted the U.S. 1789 An act of Congress provided for the registering and clearing of vessels and the regulation of the coastwise trade, thus laying the foundation of American navigation laws which, until 1912, embodied the marine policy of the United States. PSU 303, staffed by reservists from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the first of three PSUs deployed. 1987 The Coast Guard established the Air Interdiction Facility at Norfolk Naval Air Station. CGC Cherokee responded and assisted in extinguishing the resulting fires and towed the Valcour to Norfolk. One body was returned to the family in the U.S. after the war while one, who was never identified, is still interred in Lamphey to this day. Having completed a reactivation that began four years ago, this deployment marked the first time in six years that a U.S. icebreaker provided support to Operation Deep Freeze. Both F-15C pilots were eventually recovered; regrettably only one was recovered alive. Successfully completing this integrated training with HSC-21 and deploying together for RIMPAC 2016 represent the first extended Navy aviation deployment aboard a Coast Guard cutter. CGC Mohawk from Key West, Florida, interdicted two semisubmersibles in the Caribbean in 2011; however, both vessels sank during the course of the interdiction. 1999 The small cruise vessel Wilderness Adventurer ran aground in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. Despite their efforts, three died. Constitutional government. The Academy had "recently become the first of the nations service schools to contract their food services to a civilian company." Their participation in a major international military exercise, support of the Coast Guards expanding role in the Arctic domain, and commitment to pursue excellence in mission execution has made this an extremely successful deployment. The crew of Stratton participated in two high profile exercises during this deployment: the Rim of the Pacific 2016 (RIMPAC) military exercises and Operation Arctic Shield 2016. The offices at Rock Island, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio were discontinued and all the river work was placed under a single office at St. Louis, Missouri. This is the storm that wrecked the artificial harbor constructed by the Allies off the coast of Normandy. As per tradition, Alert flew a broom from its port yardarm, signifying a "clean sweep" of certification in all mission areas. The cutter worked directly with federal and international partners at JIATF-S and the Coast Guard Seventh District to combat transnational organized crime networks operating in the Caribbean Basin. After consulting with the First District command, the cutter's commanding officer allowed Soviet crewmen to board the cutter and forcibly remove Kudirka. 1945 The Coast Guard-manned frigate USS Moberly (PF-63), in concert with USS Atherton, sank the U-853 in the Atlantic off Block Island. Diligence spent the previous 28 years homeported on Wilmingtons historic downtown Riverwalk, along the bank of the Cape Fear River. These functions reverted to the continental U.S. ports in which there were located U.S. Marine Inspection Offices. 1906 Congress passed the Sponge Fishing Act and directed that the Revenue Cutter Service enforce it. The free four-day event is filled with food, family fun, live music and entertainment. L., 500, 504) provided for a systematic coloring and numbering of all buoys for, prior to this time, they had been painted red, white, or black, without any special system. All 12 of the lightship's crew perished. 1938 CGC Tahoe departed New Bedford, Massachusetts, to inaugurate the 1938 "International Ice Observation Service" (now referred to as the International Ice Patrol). His inauguration marked the beginning of U.S. Formerly headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it was decommissioned on October 1, 2013. 1917 Ten crewmen of CGC Yamacraw perished in the line of duty while trying to rescue the crew of the grounded steamer Louisiana near Ocean City, Maryland. She proved to be the schooner Joseph F. Baker with a crew of eight persons. 1997 The 757-foot containership Ever Grade collided with CGC Cowslip 10 miles upriver from the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. After making preliminary plans for the evacuation of nearly 500 beleaguered Marines, Munro, under constant risk of his life, daringly led five of his small craft toward the shore. He was awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal as was the man who rescued him, Captain Elmer Mayo of the barge Fitzpatrick. 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8929 transferred the Coast Guard to the Navy Department. L., 249), the Lighthouse Board was "authorized, when in their judgment, it is deemed necessary, to place a light-vessel, or other suitable warning of danger, on or over any wreck or temporary obstruction to the entrance of any harbor, or in the channel or fairway of any bay or sound.". During the deployment, Alex Haleys crew performed 41 at sea domestic fisheries enforcement boardings and covered more than 5,000 square miles in search efforts for the sunken Korean fishing vessel 501 Oryong. The tugs and firefighting vessels began spraying their water cannons on the freighter, filling her holds with water. 1993 Secretary of Transportation Andrew H. Card, Jr., awarded the military members of the Coast Guard the Humanitarian Service Medal and the civilian employees the Coast Guard Public Service Commendation for their services during the Haitian migrant crisis from October 1991 through November 1992. The successful interdictions were enabled by the cutters interoperability with other Coast Guard units, as well as assets from the Department of Defense and other agencies supporting the JIATF-S mission. However, seven other commissions for officers of the Revenue Cutter Service were signed on the same date. At this time the stern section rolled over, throwing the remaining three survivors into the frigid seas. The crews aboard the various vessels conducted the Coast Guards statutory missions while providing an operational presence and command and control capability in an area where the Coast Guard lacked the permanent infrastructure of a coastal sector. During that time the cutter and crew demonstrated their capability as a multi-mission unit. 1942 CGC Ingham rescued eight survivors from the torpedoed SS Tennessee. 2014 Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 7th District command center received a report from a tug stating they heard a distress call from a vessel claiming to be taking on water off the coast of Great Inagua, Bahamas. 1903 An Executive Order extended the jurisdiction of the Lighthouse Service to the non-contiguous territory of the Hawaiian Islands. 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