1849:	Captain Douglas Ottinger reported completing the construction and furnishing of eight Life-Saving stations on the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Inlet.
1944:	LST-69 (Coast Guard-manned) exploded at Pearl Harbor.
1951:	The Coast Guard announced the formation, within the Washington, DC area, of a new Organized Reserve Training Unit (Vessel Augmentation).  The mission of this new unit would be to develop a force of experienced personnel, well-trained in all shipboard billets, with particular emphasis on anti-submarine warfare, radar radio, and other branches of electronics.  Training would be directed towards readying personnel of the unit for immediate assignment to ships of the Coast Guard and Navy in the event of mobilization.