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Nov 19, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued the report of its review of the US Coast Guard’s expenditure plans for
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Nov 19, 2009
1943-Landings made at Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The Coast Guard-manned assault transport USS Leonard Wood, veteran of the landings made in the Mediterranean, participated.
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Nov 19, 2009
1943-CG Air Station at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, was designated as helicopter training base.
1984- The Coast Guard accepted the new HH-65A Dolphin helicopter for service.
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Nov 17, 2009
1953- Heavy rains in the Coquile, Coos, and Willamette River Valleys of western Oregon caused flooding of the lowland areas and isolation of some towns through
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Nov 16, 2009
The U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center issued a Special Notice stating that its mailing address has changed. Mail sent to the previous address will not be delivered.
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Nov 16, 2009
1950-A dedication of the monument erected in Arlington National Cemetery on the gravesite of those who lost their lives on the night of 29 January 1945, when USS Serpens was destroyed off Lunga Beach,
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Nov 15, 2009
1950-A dedication of the monument erected in Arlington National Cemetery on the gravesite of those who lost their lives on the night of 29 January 1945, when USS Serpens was destroyed off Lunga Beach,
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Nov 12, 2009
1883-At 1 o’clock in the afternoon, 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).
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Nov 11, 2009
1882-On 11 November the steam-barge H.C. Schnoor struck on the bar off Alcona at 11 o’clock at night about three hundred yards from the shore. A strong southeast gale prevailed at the time,
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Nov 10, 2009
1881-The crew of Life-boat Station No. 14, Eleventh District (Racine, WI) rendered service during the severest storm of the season The life-saving crew noticed
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Nov 09, 2009
1775-The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution to create a "Corps of Marines." Although they were disbanded in 1783 and were not "re-established"
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Nov 06, 2009
The US Coast Guard posted a summary of the responses received to date from various port states to the Department of State (DOS) demarche requesting information
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Nov 06, 2009
1986-An HC-130 from AIRSTA Elizabeth City located the disabled 44-foot Polish sailing vessel Gaudeamus with six Polish citizens aboard about 400 miles east of New York.
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Nov 05, 2009
The 378-ft Coast Guard Cutter Rush, homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii, arrives in Shanghai, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. The crew of the Rush is in China to engage in maritime
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Nov 05, 2009
1882-At half past 4 in the afternoon the lookout at Station No. 8, Tenth District (Forty Mile Point, Hammond’s Bay Lake Huron) discovered a small boat north
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Nov 04, 2009
In this photo by the U.S. Coast Guard, a boat crew from Coast Guard Marine Safety and Security Team Boston escorts the Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) New York as
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Nov 04, 2009
1897-Rescue from drowning Chicago. Illinois, Lake Michigan. At 9: 30 p.m. the north patrol saw a man run across the driveway and jump into the lake with suicidal intent.
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Nov 03, 2009
The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education, welfare and morale of all U.S. Coast Guard members and their families, announced
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Nov 03, 2009
1984: The CGC Northwind seized the P/C Alexi I off Jamaica for carrying 20 tons of marijuana, becoming the first icebreaker to make a narcotics seizure.
(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
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Nov 02, 2009
The Coast Guard and O'Brien's Response Management are responding to oil which is leaking from the motor vessel Pac Alkaid, which is anchored 10 miles southeast of Southwest Pass near Venice, La.
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