1881:	The crew of Life-boat Station Number 14, Eleventh District (Racine, WI rendered service during the severest storm of the season The life-saving crew noticed several vessels running north for safety under bare poles and two of them made safely into the harbor.  Observing this, the master of the schooner Lavinda tried to make the same haven, but the vessel became unmanageable, struck the south pier, immediately became waterlogged, and in five minutes was a wreck.  The life-saving crew sprang for the lifeboat and put out to her assistance.  They got alongside and managed to run a line from the wrecked vessel to the station tug H. Wetzel, which had steamed out to her relief.  The tug soon towed her into the harbor.
1918:	World War I ends.
1955:	CGC Yocona, when 60 to 70 mph winds and heavy seas with 30 feet swells made it impossible to launch lifeboats some fifty miles off Cape Lookout Oregon, pulled alongside the sinking fishing vessel Ocean Pride, thus allowing its crew members to jump aboard the cutter to safety.