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What Is A Coast Guard Model

A while ago my son, Academy class of 2010, asked me what Coast Guard models were available on the market. When I answered him I realized that is a hard topic to get your mind around. Can a Fletcher Class DD be a “Coast Guard Model”? How about a Boeing B-17 or a Curtiss SB2C …

A Brief History

The Lighthouse Service was established in 1789 to maintain navigation buoys and lights. The Revenue Cutter Service was established in 1790 to enforce customs laws. The Lifesaving Service was established in 1879 to man stations along the coast to respond to sinkings and groundings. In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service were …

How to Use This Website

I think a few of you were surprised at the array of ships and aircraft associated with the Coast Guard? In its simplest form this website creates a database of all models that fall into any of those categories and so can be built as “Coast Guard models” I have listed all models that exist …

Caveat – What This Site is NOT

This website is NOT an exhaustive research database on any single CG unit It allows you to identify a particular unit at a particular place in a particular time period It is the spark to initiate a project Wow, I can build that boat in that camo scheme It is then up to you to …

Change History

3 December 2009 – Original Publication 17 January 2010 – Complete overhaul 11 February 2010 – Added pictures of completed models 11 February 2010 – Added models suggested by aaronw and Dave V 10 April 2010 – Added card models of lighthouses thanks to Lee Anne 20 August 2010 – Migrated away from Angelfire 20 …

An Important Note On Links!! PLEASE READ!!

Please note that the Coast Guard Historian has redesigned his website. Again. I am not going to amend this website every time he changes his. I am getting too old to go to each of my pages and re-link to each cutter and aircraft. Therefore, none of my “CGH” links will work any more. This …

Credit

Tip of the hat: I got the idea for this site from Bill Michaels (USCGA – 81) whose data form the core of this database. I took his good idea and expanded it a little.