Aug. 23, 2023

The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, part three

The shipwreck that prompted the creation of the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Program is recalled by the pilot of one of the helicopters sent to rescue survivors on that fateful night.

Aug. 21, 2023

The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, Part Two

The shipwreck that prompted the creation of the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Program is recalled by the pilot of one of the helicopters sent to rescue survivors on that fateful night.

Aug. 18, 2023

The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, Part One

The shipwreck that prompted the creation of the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Program is recalled by the pilot of one of the helicopters sent to rescue survivors on that fateful night.

Aug. 11, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Coxswain Canavan’s impossible story of survival at Guadalcanal 80 years ago

“I did more praying in those hours I spent in the water than I had done in the twenty previous years of my life.”

Aug. 7, 2023

The Long Blue Line: The Ironwood—wartime ATON in Vietnam

"Back then it was less expensive to repair a ship in Japan than in a U.S. shipyard."

July 26, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Part III “When I say Americans, I mean all Americans!” — Segregation’s take-down by President Harry Truman

Denial of employment and promotion, and separate dining and restroom facilities often characterized the experience and limited upward mobility for African American workers.

July 26, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Part III “When I say Americans, I mean all Americans!” — Segregation’s take-down by President Harry Truman

Denial of employment and promotion, and separate dining and restroom facilities often characterized the experience and limited upward mobility for African American workers.

July 17, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard helps rescue U.S. submarine Squalus over 80 years ago!

Trapped and tragically drowned in the flooded after compartments were 24 officers and sailors plus two civilian technicians. This left 32 officers and sailors and one civilian technician alive in the unflooded forward compartments. 

May 19, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Evidence suggests the Midgetts actually were Mighty!

The story of the Mighty Midgetts of North Carolina

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

Image Gallery

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CGD 24 Wainwright Unknown port; photo taken from quarterdeck of unnamed USCG cutter. Boston? Photo by “Frank Palmer Business Photography Atlantic Mass.”
USCG patrol boats during Prohibition
"Coast Guard Destroyer Downes (From a Painting by the Destroyer Force Bugle Staff Artist, Marius Petersen, Sea1c.)" Scanned from "United States Coast Guard Destroyer Force The Bugle - 1790-1930" (August, 1930), p. 10.
"Ensign Roland making end run, Coast Guard-Marine game, Washington, D.C., 1929." Scanned from "United States Coast Guard Destroyer Force The Bugle - 1790-1930" (August, 1930), p. 8.
"1929 - Coast Guard Football Team - 1929. Back Row: -Lieut. Baker, Coast and Manager; Wineke, Reaves, Bergeron, Zuyl, Cummings, Shonts, Hellelfinger; Hartson, Flaherty, Lieut. Anderson, Assistant Coach. Middle Row: - Jodick, Cotter, Saunders, Heikkila, McLean, Rupert, Pearson, Brooks, Brown. Front Row: 1 Atack, Wilson, Hodcepl, Barr, Roland, Lombard, Beach, Belle. A Year of Class 'A' Athletics [-] the Crack Football Team of the U.S. Coast Guard." Scanned from "United States Coast Guard Destroyer Force The Bugle - 1790-1930" (August, 1930), p. 5.
A photo of Coast Guard Destroyer CONYNGHAM on patrol during Prohibition.
Coast Guard Destroyer's baseball team (no date).
Hand-written caption on reverse of photo reads: "Officers and crew of CGC Beale (Navy destroyer given to CG during rum running days) LCDR R R Waesche, Jr., Commanding Officer, New London, Conn. -- About 1925". Photo in R. R. Waesche Special Collections file, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office Special Collections, box 2 of 3.
Hand-written caption on reverse of photo reads: "R R Waesche Sr., CGC Snohomish, Port Angeles, or Seattle, 1922 or '23." R. R. Waesche, Sr., Special Collections files, USCG Historian's Office Special Collections, box 2 of 3.
"BEALE (CG-9) (Of the old U.S. Coast Guard Destroyer Force - 1924-1930) An early 20th century 742-ton oil burner with four stacks, the old destroyer BEALE lies at her dock in New London, Connecticut, in parade dress, flags whipping in the breeze. The BEALE was stationed at New London with Division 3 of the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Force. . . : Gen. F. 9-26-58 Copy-photo in R. R. Waesche Sr. Special Collections file, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office Special Collections, box 2 of 3.
"Engineroom Force of the Coast Guard Cutter PONTCHARTRAIN. 3-5-29 (1)." CCG Scrapbook (CG Historian's Office Special Collections Archive).
Copy photo found in the CG Historian's Office Special Collections Archive in the "Uniforms" folder. No caption or other information listed.

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