1916:	Secretary of Treasury authorized to procure three light craft river steamboats, Including lifeboats and other necessary lifesaving appliances and equipment for rescuing lives and property and distributing food and clothing to marooned people during Mississippi and Ohio River floods.
1916:	Congress authorized Treasury to establish ten Coast Guard air stations but appropriated only $7000 for an instructor and assistant.  Appropriation for their construction and for planes not made until 1924.
1916:	A naval appropriations act (39 Stat. L., 556, 602) provided for the first time the mobilization of the Lighthouse Service in time of war by authorizing the President, "…whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to transfer to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department, or of the War Department, such vessels, equipment, stations and personnel of the Lighthouse Service as he may deem to the best interest of the country."
1980:	The Coast Guard and the Royal Navy signed a Personnel Exchange Agreement.  The first exchange between the two services was helicopter pilots.