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Photographs, including reproductions and scans of drawings, illustrations, and images, depicting the U.S. Coast Guard and its five predecessor agencies: the Revenue Cutter Service, the Life-Saving Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Steamboat Inspection Service from the Coast Guard Archives and Special Collections, Coast Guard, Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, and other sources (including private individuals and research organizations).

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USCGC Decisive (WMEC 629) was decommissioned on 2 March 2023 at a ceremony held at Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL.

Superstructure of the 82-foot cutter Point Doran (WPB-82375) stationed in the Port of Everett, Wash.

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Courageous (WMEC 622) prepare to board a vessel carrying Haitian migrants.

The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence (WMEC 619) conducts helicopter operations while underway on patrol.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Durable (WMEC 628) moored at the Coast Guard shipyard

The Coast Guard cutter Dauntless (WMEC 624) and the Coast Guard Cutter Durable (WMEC 628) side by side in the dry dock at the Coast Guard Yard.

The CGC Point Bonita (WPB 82347), homeported in Norfolk, VA, takes part in a hostile party demonstration put on by the Coast Guard for Missions Day attendees.

Coast Guard Cutter Courageous (WMEC 622)

Coast Guard Cutter Courageous (WMEC 622) in for repair at the Coast Guard yard at Curtis Bay, MD

The Coast Guard Cutter Point Baker (WPB 82342), homeported at Savine, Texas patrols Houston harbors as part of heightened harbor security patrols September 28, 2001.

The 76mm gun aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin fires a three-round burst during a live-fire exercise off the coast of Mayport, Fla., April 26, 2005.

An MK15, 20mm Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) onboard a U.S. Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, is ready to take aim against air targets, on May 8, 2004.

CGC Polar Star & Operation Deep Freeze 2022

Gunnery practice aboard CGC Dependable, 2023

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless (WMEC 624) up in dry dock at the Coast Guard Yard.

Haitian refugees sit on the flight deck of the USCGC Dauntless while more are brought aboard.

A group of Haitians are picked up by the USCGC Dauntless' motor surf boat.

A smallboat from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dauntless prepare to board a vessel carrying Haitian migrants.

The Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless transits the Caribbean Sean, June 21, 2010

CGC Decisive at BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill