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COAST GUARD HISTORY

1. REVINUE CUTTER SERVICE ESTABLISHED IN 1790

2. COAST GUARD ESTABLISHED IN 1915

3. FIRST TEN REVINUE CUTTERS

A. MASSACHUSETTS

B. SCAMMEL

C. ACTIVE

D. PICKERING

E. DILIGENCE

F. ARGUS

G. VIGILANT

H. VIRGINIA

I. SOUTH CAROLINA

J. GENERAL GREENE

4. FIRST MAN COMMISSIONED: HOPLEY YEATON 21 MARCH 1791

5. FIRST UNIFORM REGULATIONS: 1830

6. COAST GUARD ENSIGN: 1799, OLIVER WOLCOTT, 16 PERPINDICULAR STRIPES ALTERNATING RED AND WHITE, UNION OF THE ENSIGN ARMS OF US DARK BLUE ON WHITE FIELD, 13 STARS REPRESENTING ORIGIONAL; COLONIES, IN 1927 THE COAST GUARD SEAL OF SHIELD AND ANCHORS WAS CENTERED ON THE SEVENTH RED STRIPE.

7. LIGHT HOUSE SERVICE WAS CREATED ON 7 AUGUST 1789

8. OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHED AT BOSTON IN 1716

9. FIRST COMMANDANT, CAPT. ALEXANDER V. FRAZER ON 12 APRIL 1843

10. FIRST STEAM CUTTER- HARRIET LANE IN 1863

11. WAR OF 1812

12. MEXICAN WAR, 1846-1848

13. CIVIL WAR, 1862

14. MCCLELLAND- WHOEVER ATTEMPTS TO HUAL DOWN THE FLAG, SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT(CIVIL WAR)

15. ALASKAN OPERATIONS: JULY 1867, CUTTER LINCOLN

16. CUTTER BEAR BUILT IN 1874, SANK IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC IN 1963

17. INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL: 1912( TITANIC SANK 15 APRIL 1912)

18. CREATION OF THE U.S. COAST GUARD WAS ON 28 JANUARY 1915 BY WOODROW WILSON

19. LT. E.F. STONE CO-PILOT OF NAVY NC-4, FIRST AIRCRAFT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC

20. WWII CUTTER TAMPA WAS SANK

21. 1 JULY 1939, THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE COMBINED WITH THE COAST GUARD

22. WWII CUTTER NORTHLANDCAPTURED THE FIRST GERMAN SHIP OF THE WAR, THE BUSKOE

23. POLAR OPERATIONS: NORTHWIND, OPERATION DEEP FREEZE IN 1948

24. 1957: THE CUTTERS BRAMBLE,SPAR AND STORIS MADE THE FIRST DEEP DRAFT TRAVERSE OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

25. VIETNAM WAR: 33 82 FOOTERS WERE SENT

26. COAST GUARD BECAME PART OF THE DOT ON 1 APRIL 1967

27. THE COAST GUARD BECAME PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ON 1 MARCH 2003

28. SHORE BASED LIFESAVING OPERATIONS: FOUNDING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HUMANE SOCIETY( ALL VOLUNTEERS) IN 1785

29. FIRST LIFEBOAT STATION: COHASET IN 1807

30. FIRST LIFESAVING STATION: CAPE COD IN 1872

31. COAST GUARD ANTHEM: SALTUS VONOSKERK, WROTE THE WORDS IN 1922, AND THE MUSIC IN 1927( CO OF THE CUTTER YAMACRAW)

32. WOMEN ALLOWED IN THE MILITARY: 1975

33. WOMEN ALLOWED ON COAST GUARD SHIPS: 1977

34. FIRST WOMAN CO: LTJG BEVERLY KELLEY, CO OF THE CUTTER CAPE NEWAGEN ON 1 APRIL 1979

35. FIRST MASCOTT ENLISTED IN THE COAST GUARD: SINBAD, ON THE CUTTER CAMPBELL WWII

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