This Day in Coast Guard History – October 18
1799-USRC Pickering (70 men) captured the French privateer L’Egypte Conquiste (250 men).
1848-Captain Douglas Ottinger, USRM, was designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to supervise the construction of the first Life-Saving Stations and the equipment and boats to be place at them.
(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)