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This Day in Coast Guard History – June 30
1932-The Steamboat Inspection Service and Bureau of Navigation were combined to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection (47 Stat. L., 415). The new…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 29
1820-On 29 June 1820 the Revenue cutter Dallas captured the 12-gun brig-of-war General Ramirez, which was loaded with 280 slaves, off St. Augustine. "On the 28th ultimo…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 28
1946- Peacetime cruises for the cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London Connecticut, were revived. (Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 25
1936-"The act of June 25, 1936 was in reality an amendment to the Seamen’s Act of 1915, and had been called the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. This law provided for (1) "qualifications…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 24
1914-Congress authorized the Secretary of Treasury to "detail for duty on revenue cutters such surgeons and other persons of the Public Health Service as … necessary"…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 23
1716-Province of Massachusetts authorized the erection of the first lighthouse in America. It was built on Great Brewster Island in Boston Harbor. 1817-The cutter…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 22
1944-Cutters 83415 and 83477 assigned to Rescue Flotilla One wrecked off coast of Normandy, France during a storm - no lives were lost. This is the storm that wrecked…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 21
1944-Cutters 83415 and 83477 assigned to Rescue Flotilla One wrecked off coast of Normandy, France during a storm - no lives were lost. This is the storm that wrecked…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 18
1812- The United States declared war against Great Britain. 1838- The steamboat Pulaski, a passenger vessel traveling between Baltimore and Charleston, suffered a boiler explosion while at sea…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 17
1832- The practice of utilizing "surplus" naval officers as officers of the Revenue Marine was discontinued. Revenue officer vacancies were henceforth filled by promotion from within the service.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 16
1880-An Act of Congress (21 Stat. 1966-The freighter Alva Cape and tanker Texaco Massachusetts collided in New York Harbor near Third Coast Guard District Headquarters on Governor's Island.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 15
1904-Nearly 1,000 lives were lost when the steamboat General Slocum caught fire in the East River in New York. The disaster led to improved safety regulations and life-saving equipment.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 14
1775-The Continental Congress adopted "the American continental army." Happy Birthday, Army! 1906-First regulatory fishing law for Alaska passed. The new law was…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 11
1927 - USS Memphis arrives at Washington, DC, with Charles Lindbergh and his plane, Spirit of St. 1944 - U.S. battleships off Normandy provide gunfire support.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 10
1872-Life-Saving stations to be erected "under supervision of two captains of the revenue service." An Act of Congress authorized government life-saving stations on Cape Cod and Block Island.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 9
1910-Congress passed the Motorboat Act that required inspections on recreational and commercial motor boats over 40-feet in length. It was enforced by the Revenue Cutter Service.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 8
1882-The sloop-rigged yacht Circe, of Cleveland, was dismasted at 1 o’clock in the afternoon about a mile outside of Cleveland Harbor. The crew of Station No. 8…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 7
1902-Alaskan Game Law passed to be enforced by Revenue Cutter Service "on request" of Secretary of Agriculture. It, however, was not effectively enforced by Coast Guard until 1925.
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 3
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…
This Day in Coast Guard History – June 1
1874-The light was first lit at Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, located on a limestone reef at the northern end of Lake Huron, near the Straits of Mackinac, ten miles from land.