Painting from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection of the cutter Snohomish aiding the lumber steamer Nika in heavy seas off Washington state in February 1922. After rescuing Nika's crew, the cutter proceeded to assist the British freighter Tuscan Prince, grounded off Vancouver Island, and the steamship Santa Rita. Snohomish then made Port Angeles, putting ashore 105 evacuees, according to Coast Guard archives.
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A German U-boat attacked the tanker SS Maine 16 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras Light, North Carolina, during World War Two. This is the view from an aircraft assigned to U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, Elizabeth City, on March 27, 1942.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Storis (foreground) was the first American vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. It happened in 1957.
Photo: Petty Officer 3rd Class David R. Marin
Weapons exercise aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutter Boutwell on Jan. 30, 2009.
U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell in World War Two.
Photos: Wikipedia, U.S. Coast Guard
"You're in the Coast Guard now." The Coast Guard-manned troopship USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-33) was launched in 1921 as a passenger liner. She was named the SS President Roosevelt by the United States Lines in 1922. Taken over by the War Department in 1940, the President Roosevelt was re-named and converted to an attack transport in the buildup to World War Two and served in the Atlantic and Pacific.
"You're in the Coast Guard now." The Coast Guard-manned troopship USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-33) was launched in 1921 as a passenger liner. She was named the SS President Roosevelt by the United States Lines in 1922. Taken over by the War Department in 1940, the President Roosevelt was re-named and converted to an attack transport in the buildup to World War Two and served in the Atlantic and Pacific.
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