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May 24, 2024
Rogue cutter Madison — remembering our first POWs 210 years ago
Filth, disease, vermin, overcrowding and lack of fresh air and water made life on hulks a battle for survival.
May 10, 2024
Devotion to Duty — Asian nationals serving in the Coast Guard
Asian nationals began serving in the United States Coast Guard 175 years ago, playing an important role in the history of the Coast Guard’s ancestor agency of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.
May 3, 2024
Charles Jones Soong—Cutterman and powerful Chinese patriarch
Charles Jones Soong served in the Revenue Cutter Service. However, his fame is little known in the U.S. compared to his celebrity in the Far East.
April 26, 2024
Sentinels of the past — the Coast Guard’s Civil War Boat Howitzers from the Revenue Cutter Service
Written by retired Gunner CWO Steven Wilson, this essay provides the history of two Coast Guard Civil War artifacts: Boat Howitzers #245 and #246.
May 5, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Lt. Frank Newcomb and the Battle of Cardenas Bay 125 years ago
Spanning the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, Frank Hamilton Newcomb served for over 40 years in the U.S. sea services.
April 28, 2023
The Long Blue Line: 125 Years Ago—Cutter McCulloch in the Battle of Manila Bay
The role of the Revenue Cutter McCulloch in the Spanish-American War
Sept. 2, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Captain Fraser—Coast Guard’s forgotten visionary and first commandant
. . . [Captain] Fraser opposed an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and this official’s hostility proved fatal to the Captain’s long career: by an arbitrary abuse of power, the administration in 1856 revoked his commission summarily. Both indefensible and stupid, this action resulted wholly from personal animosity and cost the government one of
Aug. 12, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Revenue Cutter Alabama rescues 16 from human traffickers 200 years ago!
In June 1822, the Alabama District Court in Mobile heard cases against three vessels that had been seized several months earlier by the Revenue Cutter Alabama. Within the space of four days, beginning on March 4th, the 56-foot topsail schooner had captured them just north of the Florida Keys. Two were charged with “having onboard . . . negroes . .
Aug. 3, 2022
Coast Guard Day – Seeing the Completed Jigsaw Puzzle Picture
Here is part one of a two-part story of the beginnings for the United States Coast Guard as we celebrate 232 years.
June 7, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part II. The Apocalypse comes to Kodiak and the Revenue Cutter Service
Part 2 of the Katmai eruption
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