1936: CGC Cayuga was ordered to San Sebastian, Spain as the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War necessitated the evacuation of US citizens.  While on this deployment, the US ambassador to Spain and his staff came on board and the cutter served as the US embassy in Spain.
1944: The assault on Tinian Island, one of the Marshall Islands.  Coast Guard-manned transports that participated included USS Cambria and Cavalier.
1967: The Coast Guard Station at Rochester, New York was notified that a 16-foot sailboat with two youths aboard was overdue from a day’s sail.  The weather was reported as: winds to 40 miles per hour in gusts during a thunderstorm, 1-2 foot seas, visibility 2 miles to zero in squalls.  A motor lifeboat and a 30ft utility boat commenced a surface search.  An aircraft was dispatched to conduct a first light air search.  On the third expanded search the boat was located by the aircraft within the search area.
1981: Station Brant Point received a call from the Nantucket Hospital requesting Coast Guard assistance in transporting a patient suffering from a brain tumor.  An HU-16 was dispatched to medevac the patient, Mildred "Madaket Millie" Jewett, a long-time friend of the Coast Guard and an honorary CWO4.