1861:	Secretary John A. Dix of Treasury ordered Lt. Caldwell "to arrest Capt. Breshwood (Confederate sympathizer) assume command of cutter (McClelland) and if anyone attempts to haul down the flag, shoot him on the spot."[emphasis added] The message was not delivered by the telegraph office.  Breshwood turned McClelland over to the State of Louisiana.
1942:	The capsized hulk of the CGC Alexander Hamilton is sunk by the US Navy after she was torpedoed off the coast of Iceland by the U-132 the previous day.  She is the first cutter sunk by enemy action during World War II.  26 of her crew perish.
1942:	USS Wakefield (USCG-manned), having disembarked 20,000 British troops, was bombed by the Japanese in Singapore.  Five were killed.  The ship later evacuates 500 women and children to Bombay before the port falls to the Japanese.