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Picture of Capt. Jim O’Keefe with author Meghan Watson after her graduation from boot camp at Training Center Cape May. (Photograph courtesy of James O’Keefe)

July 9, 2021

The Long Blue Line: “Go to New Orleans and do whatever you can to help!”--Coast Guard aviator remembers Hurricane Katrina

Read about Cmdr. Jim O'Keefe's experience during Hurricane Katrina

Official Revenue Cutter Service photograph of Captain Calvin L. Hooper late in his career. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 11, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Hooper— Arctic pioneer and founder of the Bering Sea Patrol—a son’s remembrance

Read about Capt. Calvin Hooper's contribution to the service and the country

2. The only known image of Revenue Cutter Service officer William Cooke Pease. Taken in 1860, it is the oldest photograph of a cutterman that exists. (Florence Kern, Captain Pease: U.S. Coast Guard Pioneer)

May 28, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Lt. Pease recounts the Key West Hurricane 170 years ago!

Here is a historical first-hand account of the Key West Hurricane of 1846 (a.k.a. The Great Havana Hurricane).

Faded photo of Seneca during her World War I service. (Coast Guard Collection)

May 21, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Ship of heroes—Seneca’s history-making rescue of World War I

Lt. Brown and the gallant volunteers set an example worthy of the highest traditions of any Service or any Nation.

Mara Huling Langevin – A Link in the Long Blue Line

May 20, 2021

Mara Huling Langevin – A Link in the Long Blue Line

“I never thought about being the first of anything.  All I wanted to do was be a pilot and fly.”  

Posed photograph of Filipino Steward’s Mate 1st Class Modesto Magbanoa, who served in both world wars. (Ancestry.com)

May 14, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Asian cuttermen--the first 100 years of unique service history

Here's a bit of history of Asian and Pacific Islanders serving in the Coast Guard

. Photo of Hawaiian Manuel Ferreira in uniform posing with his family in 1926. (Lighthouse Digest Magazine)

May 7, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The history of Pacific Island men and women in the U.S. Coast Guard

For over 170 years, thousands of Pacific-Island men and women have served with distinction in the United States Coast Guard.

U.S. Revenue Cutter Service ensign flown during the Civil War. (Coast Guard Collection)

April 16, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The Coast Guard fought in the Civil War 160 years ago!

The Civil War operations of the service reinforced the United States Revenue Cutter Service’s reputation as a legitimate branch of the U.S. military.

Painting of the sinking of Cutter Tampa by the German submarine UB-91 painted by noted marine artist John Wisinski. (Coast Guard Collection)

April 9, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Combat Operations in World War I

World War I served as a baptism of fire for the Coast Guard. During the war, the Coast Guard performed its traditional missions of search and rescue, maritime interdiction, law enforcement, humanitarian response, and port security.

Service photo of Anthony Pettit, the Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Scotch Cap station during the disaster. (U.S. Coast Guard)

April 1, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Standing a deadly watch 75 years ago—final hours of Scotch Cap Lighthouse

Chief Sanford broadcast stating “we had been struck by a tidal wave and might have to abandon the station, and that I believed Scotch Cap Lightstation was lost.” He worried that his transmissions might be taken as an April Fool’s joke.

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