From the Coast Guard Curatorial Services’ Borrowing Artifacts From the U.S. Coast Guard website:
NOTE:
At this time, Coast Guard Curatorial Services is no longer accepting artifact loan applications. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to restore the artifact loan program soon.
Does anyone have any updates? They would be much appreciated.
The following is a great read on how to preserve and promote our Coast Guard’s history & heritage. According to Jaegun Lee of Watertownnews.com:
The search for past Tibbetts Point lighthouse keepers is complete.
Joseph P. Dudek, president of the Tibbetts Point Lighthouse Historical Society, said he identified 35 keepers and has ordered a memorial plaque to [...]
The 50 Destroyer deal, where the US gave the Brits 50 old flush deck destroyers under Lend-Lease, is pretty famous, but there was also a 10 cutter deal where we gave them 10 relatively new 250 foot cutters. The 255s were built to replace these.
I was surprised to learn that they had managed to sink [...]
Posted on 14 December 2009 by Jim Dolbow | Comments
SS St. Louis survivors recall voyage from Fla.
By ELINOR J. BRECHER
Miami Herald Writer
Before the six million, there were the 937.
They were German Jews aboard the transatlantic liner MS St. Louis seeking safe haven from the Nazis in Havana and Miami four months before World War II broke out.
Refused entry first by the Cubans then by [...]
Posted on 2 December 2009 by Jim Dolbow | Comments
Iin the Spanish-American War, Lieutenant Frank Newcomb was the commanding officer of the REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE HUDSON at the battle for Cardenas, Cuba.
Newcomb and his crew rescued the disabled Navy torpedo boat USS Winslow under fire.
President William McKinley noted in his request to Congress to recognized the gallantry of Newcomb and his crew with a [...]
George Vladimirovich Stepanoff was born in Moscow, Russia on April 23, 1893. Little is known about his early years except that his parents were Vladimir and Katherine Stepanoff and, in 1919, he was an Imperial Russian Navy officer stationed on board a Second-class Russian cruiser (destroyer) in Vladivostok.
During the Bolshevik Revolution Stepanoff remained loyal to [...]
Posted on 20 October 2009 by Jim Dolbow | Comments
Mark Brooky of The GrandHaven Tribune writes,
The retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Acacia has a new home in Manistee [Michigan].
Tom Read, who is involved in both the Manistee-based Society for the Preservation of the SS City of Milwaukee and the American Academy of Industry — which obtained the Acacia after it was decommissioned three [...]
Over at the The Coast Guard Compass, Coast Guard Deputy Historian Scott Price and Collections Manager Jeffrey Bowdoin have an outstanding post about the ir collection of private papers, diaries, artifacts, uniforms, photos, etc., from Coast Guard veterans (or donated by their families).
One of our charters is to collect, preserve and promote Coast [...]
It was truly an honor for me to e-interview Mike Walling about his outstanding book, Bloodstained Sea. If you only had time to read one book about the U.S.Coast Guard in World War II, I strongly recommend you go out and get a copy of Bloodstained Sea. A good read indeed about the heroism of [...]
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