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U S C G, 1790 to the Present
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: Elderberry Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781932762150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A former officer traces the history of the United States Coast Guard from itsorigin in 1790 to the present.
U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935
Author: Donald L. Canney
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 1,000 vessels are included in this the first complete and systematic listing of U.S. Revenue Service and Coast Guard vessels through 1935.
The United States Coast Guard and National Defense
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0786488557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and coordinated missions with other armed forces from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and North Polar region. This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explored are defense threats, drug trafficking, and border security, as well as Coast Guard personnel, training, leadership, and assets.
A Coast Guardsman's History of the U.S. Coast Guard
Author: C D Kroll
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1612518761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service’s core values. The author highlights contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as reservists, auxiliarists, and civilian members of Team Coast Guard. These heroes, representing a great diversity in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, set an example worthy of emulation and serve as role models for today’s Coast Guard men and women.
United States Coast Guard Leaders and Missions, 1790 to the Present
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-02-28
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1476618054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessor agencies dates from 1790, with missions in both domestic and international waters. The service has provided aids to navigation, enforcement of maritime laws, environmental protection, search and rescue, immigration and narcotics interdiction, maritime safety assistance, port security, natural disaster response and national defense missions, including overseas with other U.S. armed forces and federal and state public safety agencies. The Service has operated under the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Transportation and, since 2003, the Department of Homeland Security. Its maritime mission regions have included Arctic and Antarctic waters, inland and coastal U.S. waterways and the seas and oceans of the world. This history describes how the Coast Guard has manifested its legacy and motto, Semper Paratus (Always Ready), in changing conditions under each of its leaders.
The United States Coast Guard in World War II
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0786453710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war. Teaming up with other international forces, the Coast Guard provided crewmembers for Navy and Army vessels as well as its own, carried troops, food, and military supplies overseas, and landed Marine and Army units on distant and dangerous shores. This thorough history details those and other important missions, which included combat engagement with submarines and kamikaze planes, and typhoons. On the home front, port security missions involving search and rescue, fire fighting, explosives, espionage and sabotage presented their own unique dangers and challenges.
Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-03-14
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0309103215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakersâ€"three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
United States Revenue and Coast Guard Cutters in Naval Warfare, 1790-1918
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-01-13
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1476630755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790--when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine--through World War I, this book describes the service's national defense missions, including actions during the War of 1812, clashes with pirates, slave ships and Seminole Indians, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I the USCG supported U.S. Navy operations across the Atlantic, escorted merchant convoys and engaged in anti-submarine warfare. Original maps are included.
The Lighthouse Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
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