A Coast Guard Higgins boat lands troops assigned to the 1st Infantry Division onto Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Coast Guard marks its 235th birthday Aug. 4, 2025 Photo by Coast Guard Chief Robert F. Sargent
The Coast Guard cutter Tampa is moored off Gibraltar in North Africa in 1918. The cutter was sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, with the loss of all 131 Coast Guardsmen on board, making it the greatest Coast Guard loss of World War I. Navy file photo
A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter flies overhead as the Coast Guard cutter Resolute steams near the Deepwater Horizon spill site in the Gulf of America, July 4, 2010. The Coast Guard marks 235 years of protecting the nation’s waterways, Aug. 4, 2025. Photo by Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Belson
Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Derrian Duryea, left, a rescue swimmer assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., and Petty Officer 2nd Class Jose Charon, a flight mechanic assigned to Air Station Clearwater, try to locate people in distress in a flooded neighborhood near Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 11, 2017. The Coast Guard marks 235 years of protecting the nation’s waterways Aug. 4, 2025. Photo by Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Lindberg
The Coast Guard cutter Duane shells targets in South Vietnam in support of forces ashore in 1967. Aug. 4, 2025, marks the 235th birthday of the Coast Guard. Coast Guard file photo
The Coast Guard was established as the Revenue-Marine, Aug. 4, 1790, when President George Washington signed a bill drafted by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, authorizing the construction of 10 cutters that would be part of the Treasury Department.The new fleet was used to clamp down on smuggling, resulting from the high tariffs the U.S. had placed on Europe. From 1790 to 1798, th...
