This Day in U.S. Coast Guard History – January 6

1934- The United States Line SS Washington came within inches of ramming the new Light Vessel No. 117 on the Nantucket Station.  The liner scraped the lightship’s side, shearing off davits, a lifeboat, antennas, etc.  Five months later the lightship was sunk by RMS Olympic when it rammed the lightship, killing seven of the lightship's crew.

1973- The U. S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut, announced that its cadets were served "meals for the first time by female civilian employees."  The Academy had "recently became the first of the nation’s service schools to contract their food services to a civilian company."  Previously, Coast Guard personnel had done the serving.

(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)