This Day in U.S. Coast Guard History - July 6
July 6, 2011
1809- Congress authorized the construction of twelve new cutters to enforce President Thomas Jefferson’s embargo.
1942- Coast Guard amphibious aircraft V-166 landed in the open ocean and took aboard 21 survivors of a torpedoed tanker in Gulf of Mexico.
Source: USCG Historian’s Office
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