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Portrait of William Tatham in 1779. Tatham was a contemporary and frequent correspondent of the president. He was universally acknowledged as brilliant, but could be abrasive and arrogant. He quickly alienated the other two commissioners, Jonathan Price and William Coles, working on the 1806 survey. They ended up submitting separate reports, and only Coles and Price produced the chart. (North Carolina Historical Review, July 1972)

May 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Death by hurricane of Coast Survey Cutters Diligence and Governor Williams 216 years ago

A busy hurricane season of 1806.

A map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing the State of Alaska and the epicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. (NOAA)

April 15, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “The land turned to liquid”—Coast Guard operations in the Great Alaska Earthquake

The land turned to liquid. A long slice of the seaward edge of the plain…a section nearly a mile long and as much as six hundred feet wide-compacted, slumped, and then slid into the bay… men tumbled into the water, grasping for anything – timbers, boxes, debris-to stay afloat. One clung to the side of the fissure before he too, fell in. In the

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star passes Alcatraz as the cutter transits the San Francisco Bay, April 4, 2022. Following their 147-day Antarctic deployment, the cutter will undergo annual maintenance in a Vallejo, California, dry dock. Courtesy photo by Sachiko Itagaki.

April 14, 2022

Frontline Focus: Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment

Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment; U.S., Philippine Coast Guards host maritime law enforcement forum in Guam; Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane returns home to Portsmouth, Virginia following 50-day patrol; and Coast Guard offloads $20 million in cocaine, following at-sea drug bust near Puerto Rico. 

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., flies a Jayhawk on a training mission June 14, 2016. Jayhawk aircrews typically consist of two pilots, a flight mechanic and rescue swimmer. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Auxiliarist David Lau)

April 6, 2022

Coast Guard bringing on reserve pilots 

Reserve aviators to take to the skies.

Rare photograph of a Civil War-era tugboat. USS Daisy, a tugboat converted for Union naval may have been similar in design and construction to USRCS Hercules and Reliance. (www.history.uscg.mil)

April 1, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “The last full measure of devotion”—the life and death of Revenue Cutter Capt. Thomas Dungan

A story about the Coast Guard's predecessor service in the Civil War.

Members from Coast Guard District Seven staff stretch at Brickell Key Park in Miami Jan. 13, 2011 after a one-mile-and-a-half run as part of the Coast Guard Seventh District Resolution Challenge. The challenge is designed around the Coast Guard physical fitness test, which requires push-ups and sit-ups in one minute and a one-mile-and-a-half run. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sabrina Elgammal.

March 9, 2022

If weight loss is your goal, accountability may be a phone call away

CG SUPRT offers 13 free health coaching calls per year for each unique health coaching topic to eligible members and their dependents

Ensign Spencer King assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton, received his commission in a very unique way.

March 8, 2022

From working on cruise ships to a Coast Guard commission

A former sea cadet rides waves of adversity through the pandemic, pursuing a commission after enlistment

Petty Officer 2nd Class Monique Gilbreath prepares to take part in a diving exercise at Coast Guard Sector San Diego, March 25, 2021. Gilbreath is one of two active female divers in the Coast Guard. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alex Gray)

Feb. 15, 2022

New: Career guides for the enlisted workforce 

Career guides serve as a blueprint to success from the apprentice through the master level.

A flotilla of Coast Guard landing craft evacuated a battalion of Marines surrounded at Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. For his heroism in this operation, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro received the service’s only Medal of Honor. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 4, 2022

The Long Blue Line: 1942—Coast Guard’s history making year 80 years ago!

Remembering events from 1942

Partial section of the painting “Coast Guard Rescue,” by Paul Rendel showing the stormy sea state during the nighttime rescue of the Terry T. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Jan. 28, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Lt. j.g. John Currier–Harmon Trophy honoree and the rescue of Scalloper Terry T

The rescue of 10 from the Terry T.

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