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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 good Samaritan notified Sector Key West watchstanders of a migrant vessel at approximately 9:00 a.m., about 17 miles south of Marathon, April 18, 2022. The people were repatriated to Cuba April 27, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

May 5, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard seizes 168 pounds of marijuana near South Padre Island, Texas, and more

Coast Guard seizes 168 pounds of marijuana near South Padre Island, Texas; Coast Guard Sector Miami holds change of command ceremony, Miami; Sector St. Petersburg will receive first 154-foot fast response cutter; Coast Guard, partners rescue missing mariners near Chuuk State, Santa Rita, Guam; and Coast Guard repatriates 84 people to Cuba.

The Coast Guard's student team members during the culinary competition, the 46th Joint Culinary Training Exercis, March 10, 2022. The team won silver in the Student Chef of the Year category and Petty Officer 3rd Class Predmore won Student Chef of the Year. Pictured from left to right: Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Dormburg, Petty Officer 3rd Class Spencer Hooker, Petty Officer 3rd Class Micah Hetrick, Petty Officer 3rd Class Joanni Govier and Petty Officer 3rd Class Thomas Predmore. (USCG photo)

May 3, 2022

The Coast Guard’s Culinary Team Wins Gold at the 46th Joint Services Culinary Competition

Members of the team will continue on to nationals to compete with industry professionals. 

Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter, active duty recipient of the 2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award, with wife, Jean, at his 2018 advancement ceremony. Photo courtesy Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter.

May 2, 2022

2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award recipients announced

MyCG interviews the active duty and civilian winners 

Prinsendam cruising the sheltered waters near Skagway, Alaska, before her fire and subsequent loss. (Alaska State Library)

April 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!

Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 28, 2022

FSMS: Weekly progress report from the Incident Command

The Coast Guard’s FSMS Transition Incident Command (IC) is looking for volunteers to assist in its mission critical operation. 

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

DHS Secretary’s Awards presented in Seattle

Congratulations to all winners

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

Extreme Rescue: Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew receives DHS Secretary’s Award for Valor 

Congratulations to the Coast Guard's Secretary's Award recipients.

Coast Guard tattoo policy graphic

April 28, 2022

Updates to the Tattoo, Body Marking, Body Piercing, and Mutilation Standards

Couple of changes to the manual, check them out.

The commissioning crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr., Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's sixth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, stand at attention as the ship is placed into service at a ceremony held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, April 21, 2022. The cutter's namesake is Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Clarence Sutphin Jr., a New York native who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1941 to 1945. During this time, Sutphin served as landing craft coxswain on board the attack transport USS Leonard Wood (APA 12), a landing craft supporting our troops in North Africa and Sicily. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Schultz)

April 28, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter, and more.

Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter; Coast Guard offloads $11.7 million in cocaine, transfers 6 suspected smugglers in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard Cutter Legare crew stops drugs, rescues Colombian fishers on 3-month patrol in Eastern Pacific, Caribbean; and Coast Guard hosts Army Corps of Engineers for site survey and future projects in San Francisco Bay.

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