Coast Guard History

The Coast Guard was created when what two services were merged?

During what conflict were Coast Guard cutters painted gray to avoid being easy targets in the moonlight or flare light?

During which conflict did cutters capture 18 prizes unaided and assist in the capture of 2 others?

During which conflict did the Treasury Department establish Captain of the Port Offices in New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk and Sault Ste Marie?

During which conflict was the first time in the Coast Guard Reserve history that involuntary overseas mobilization occurred?

During which conflict was the first time that steamboats were used in war?

What event was the driving force for establishing the International Ice Patrol?

Which cutter captured 10 prizes, one of which carried 44 guns and 200 men, three times her own force?

Which cutter captured the first prize during the War of 1812?

Which cutter is credited with firing the first naval shots of the Civil War?

Where is the only Coast Guard-manned light station in the U.S. today?

When this cutter was run ashore the crew dragged her guns to a high bluff and fought the British ships from there?

Which cutter recaptured the American vessels Nanal and Mehitable in a memorable fight in 1799 with the French Privateer Revenge?

Which cutter sank an enemy submarine by ramming it?

Which cutter served as a ocean escort to 18 convoys from Gibraltar, comprising 350 vessels?

Which cutter took part in the expedition to Fort Sumter in 1861?

Which cutter took the Norwegian trawler Boskoe into "protective custody" and captured three German radiomen ashore?

Which cutter used depth charges to force a German submarine to surface?

Which cutter was engaged in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War?

Which cutter was engaged with Spanish gunboats and shore batteries in Cardenas Bay during the Spanish-American War?

Which cutter was torpedoed by a German submarine after escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom?

Which Lighthouse Keeper served 39 years at the Lime Rock Lighthouse, saving 18 lives?

Which cutter served as the escort and dispatch boat with Commodore George Dewey's Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish-American War?

Which cutter successfully tracked a submarine through a convoy during World War II?

During which conflict was the first time that the entire Coast Guard was transferred to the Navy?

During which conflict did the Coast Guard play a marginal role, primarily one of support?

During which conflict was the first time the Coast Guard augmented the Navy with shallow-draft craft?

During which conflict was the Coast Guard given responsibility for cold-weather operations in Greenland?

During which conflict was the first time ocean-going cutters augmented Navy and Coast Guard surveillance forces?

Which cutter rescued 578 migrants from a grossly overloaded 75-foot coastal freighter?

Who founded the Revenue Cutter Service?

When was the Coast Guard officially transferred to the Department of Homeland Security?

When was the Federal Lifesaving Service initiated?

Following World War II, members of what organization were given rates and ratings, uniforms and insignia?

Members of what part-time force perform the same tasks as active duty personnel?

The Refuse Act of 1899 was the catalyst for what Coast Guard mission?

The fatality rate of this focus has greatly declined as a result of what Coast Guard mission?

Drug smuggling in the 1960s gave what mission increased significance?