And back around to the Coast Guard…
I couldn’t find any details on this one, but it’s an interesting one for the ‘history’ perspective it brings in.
The Coast Guard’s official history began on 4 August 1790 when President George Washington signed the Tariff Act that authorized the construction of ten vessels, referred to as “cutters,” to enforce federal tariff and trade laws and to prevent smuggling.
The service received its present name in 1915 under an act of Congress that merged the Revenue Cutter Service with the U. S. Life-Saving Service, thereby providing the nation with a single maritime service dedicated to saving life at sea and enforcing the nation’s maritime laws. The Coast Guard began maintaining the country’s aids to maritime navigation, including lighthouses, when President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the transfer of the Lighthouse Service to the Coast Guard in 1939.
So the Coasties are actually older than the Navy by 8 years…
This is an interesting poster. I do believe coastal artillery has gone the way of the dodo, hasn’t it?
The Portuguese maintained coastal artillery at Setubal at least up until 1999. I haven’t been back in awhile. It could still be there. Nice little club.
I like the poster.
Well done.
I think the only time I’ve ever seen coastal artillery depicted was in a Three Stooges short.
Knee-deep sailors, puddle pirates…but nice guys and gals for the most part who like to rescue people. Sort of AAA on the ocean…
OK Fathom Fathers….
The US Coast Guard are the sole reason the Navy boys have handsome sons and pretty daughters. Be more thankful!
Semper Paratus. Ready then, Ready now, Always Ready!!
Remember hearing the Navy got started when the Coast Guard ran out patches. Anybody know the details?
Buck- Yep, coastal artillery ended after WWII.
Ed- LOL, thanks!
LL- True! 🙂
Danny- 🙂 Yep, Always Ready, in any weather.
WSF- Nope, hadn’t heard that one! Danny?
The Coast Guard may be older, but the Navy was the first to sail out of sight of land. Blue water rules the waves.
Sigh, coffeypot (and others) strikes out yet again…..;-)
When was the last time the navy took a surface vessel thru the Northwest Passage?
AAA on the ocean? Last time I checked AAA didn’t have armed vessels…………
We can go on and on but the FACT is that the CG is the oldest continuous sea-going service. Period.
Ya’ll have a nice day!
OTB MCPO sends…….
The whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God!
http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/h_uscghistory.asp
CP- LOL
Gomez- Well, they DO tow… 🙂
Danny- Good one!
Puddle Pirates.
Always thought it was friggin weird hearing about the local ones going on an honest to gawd deployment to the ‘stan.
Good on em, even if they coined the term “It’s not gay if you’re underway”
Being deployed to Sandy Hook NJ was much worse. LOL Dealing with all that nudity on the beaches, drunks getting lost at sea. (Telling the radioman, ask them if they have a compass, then tell them to head 270 degrees west) Telling beached idiots when the tide will be in to get them floating again.
I tell a tail about me being a salty sea dog and the Captain, being a Warrant Officer and loving salty Boatswain mates, handing me the keys to the kingdom in Sandy Hook. 2:00 AM SAR alarm goes off and I run to a 41 footer, and two block the engines away from the floating dock. I come around to port and I am looking right down into NY Lower harbor. Do you know how many lights there are looking west from there? Holy sheep deep!! I mean how many buoys can you squeeze in here, and add all the red lights from the Staten Island streets, or was it green lights? I throttled back pretty quick. Is that a coal barge? No, seems to be a trash truck backing up.. It was quite a ride to the Port Elizabeth Anchorage. Give me an eastern bound course anytime!! Dark and deep is better than NY harbor anytime!
Great Poster
Heath- ROTF… bad…
Danny- Heh… THAT must have been fun (not)…
Rick- Thanks!
Hey old NFO;
Looks like one of those scenes where the gun is on a merchant ship and they are going after submarines or a “Q” ship.
When I was Haze Gray and Underway in WestPac, I remember seeing a CG cutter…I think it was in Pusan, Korea or Sasebo, Japan. It was tempting to look up the sailors and spout the old line from Star Wars: “You came here in THAT? You’re braver than I thought!”
I decided against it. I like the Coasties and definitely respect anyone who’ll patrol in some of the coastal areas in a awful weather. That’s some scary time underway!
DB- Yep, I saw them in the Barents Sea in winter… You couldn’t PAY me to do that… Much less the helo crews… And I flew for 22 years in the military.