Photographs
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| CAPT Godfrey L. Carden,
USCG. Original caption unknown, photo
number/date/photographer unknown. Possibly 1918?
During World War I, CAPT Godfrey L.
Carden, commander of the Coast Guard's New York Division, was
named COTP in that harbor. The majority of the nation's
munitions shipments abroad left through New York. For a
period of 1 1/2 years, more than 1,600 vessels, carrying more than
345 million tons of explosives, sailed from this port. In
1918, Carden's command was the largest single command in the Coast
Guard. It was made up of 1,400 officers and men, four Corps
of Engineer's tugs and five harbor cutters. His pioneering
work defined the Coast Guard's port security mission for the next
60 years.
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| "Worn by COTP Port
Security Specialists During World War II." Photo
number/date/photographer unknown. The rate insignia for a
Coast Guard Port Security Specialist, First Class. |
| "Coast Guard
Police check identification in a restricted area."
Photo number/date/photographer unknown. The WWII History of
Port Security, USCG, Seattle, noted: "On August 4, 1942, the
District Coast Guard Officer, 13th Naval District, was directed by
Headquarters to enroll, as a special group of Temporary
Reservists, private plant guards in facilities where Naval
construction or construction of interest to the Navy was being
carried out. The primary purpose of the establishment of the
Coast Guard Police was to give the facilities involved a certain
amount of military protection, large military immunity, and the
law enforcement power of the Coast Guard." [Page 85] |
| Original caption
unknown, photo number/date/photographer unknown.
A Coast Guard port security patrol
in New York utilizing the ubiquitous Jeep.
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| "PORT SECURITY'S A
COAST GUARD JOB: Credentials, please. Safeguarding the ports
of the United States from sabotage is an important duty of the
Coast Guard. Here at the gateway to a busy embarkation port
Coast Guard shore patrolmen and Army military police both stand
guard, checking credentials of all seeking entrance."
Coast Guard photo 1673; no date; photographer unknown. |
| "A Marine
Inspection Officer boarding a ship from a boat manned by Temporary
Reservists."
Photo number/date/photographer
unknown.
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| Original caption
unknown; photo number/date/photographer unknown.
One of the many harbor craft
utilized by Coast Guard port security patrols. This was an
example of a 30-foot Hanley fire boat, one of many built between
1942-1943, that had four 500-gallon-a-minute fire pumps.
Note the Coast Guard ensign flying from the makeshift staff.
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| "Loading
explosives." 25 May 1944; Norfolk, Virginia;
photographer: Kendall. |
| "The club swinging
member of the CGB-48's Shore Patrol is on duty outside the Barge
Office, South Ferry, N.Y."
Photo number/date/photographer
unknown.
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| "Loading munitions
under Coast Guard supervision at Caven Point."
Photo number/date/photographer
unknown.
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