1942:	Coast Guard plane located lifeboats of SS Arubutan off North Carolina coast and directed CGC Calypso to them.
1973:	The first "Coast Guard-controlled drug seizure" took place when the cutter Dauntless seized the sport fishing vessel Big L which was carrying an illicit cargo: one ton of marijuana.  (Taken from Charles M. Fuss, Jr.  Sea of Grass.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996, p. 11).