Coast Guard Station

Two decades after the end of the Civil War, the first U.S. Life Saving Station at Pensacola Bay was established just four miles east of Fort Pickens.

Charged with patrolling the seashore day and night, the crew assisted stranded voyagers. ...

Coast Guard

The Revenue Cutter Service, the federal bureau that enforced treaties and tariffs on the seas and inland waterways, established its officer training school at Fort Trumbull in 1910. Fort Trumbull offered easy access to Long Island Sound, which was a ...

The Roots of the US Coast Guard

Supporting and Defending Maritime Trade

In 1789, when the new federal government needed a national source of revenue, Congress turned to the sea. They placed a tax on imports, created the Customs Service to collect it and established federal oversight for ...

Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacifi

Cooks, Stewards, and Messmen

In memory of all U.S. Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Marines of African and Asian-Pacific Descent who honorably served officers as cooks, stewards and messmen on U.S. Navy ships and bases and who valiantly manned battle stations during ...

Coast Guard Aviation Monument

In Honor of the Men Who Established Coast Guard Aviation

In May of 1925 On

Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor

Home of the First Continuously Operating Coast Guard Air Station

Growth in Operations and Aircraft Size Forced a Move

To Salem Massachussetts in 1935 ...

U.S. Coast Guard on Mustang Island

The Aransas Pass has significantly influenced the economic development of the region. The natural waterway also has included treacherous navigational hazards. In 1878, the US Government addressed this situation when it established the first Aransas Life Saving Station on Mustang ...

U.S. Coast Guard Memorial

[Northwest face]:

[Coast Guard Emblem:]

Semper Paratus - 1790

United States Coast Guard

World War

[Northeast face]:

Officers and Men, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, sunk by enemy submarine in Bristol Channel, September 26, 1918, when all on board were lost:

[List of 115 Names]

“Thy Way ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Taney

The last surviving warship from the attack on Pearl Harbor

Open for visitors as part of the Baltimore Maritime Museum ... the USCGC TANEY was built in 1936 and was in continuous service until 1986. In addition to Pearl Harbor, ...

The Coast Guard

The City of Portsmouth has had a long history of supporting U.S. Coast Guard operations. Today it serves as a center for Coast Guard regional administration and operational oversight through the Atlantic Area Command headquarters, Fifth District headquarters and the ...