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Coast Guard Museum Collection
Just a few of the historic items in the Museum's
collection
Cutter Memorabilia:
- Silver
gravy boat from the ward room of the USRC Androscoggin, and
a silver plated serving spoon made by the R. Wallace Company for the
Revenue Cutter Service.
Equipment:
Flags:
Medals:
- A
one of a kind medal struck for and awarded to then LT Ellsworth P.
Bertholf for his work in the overland relief of whalemen and their ships
who had become trapped in the ice at Point Barrow in the winter of
1897-1898. (face
and reverse)
- Gold
and Silver Life-Saving Medal. The gold life-saving medal on
the left was used between 1874 and 1882. This particular medal was
awarded to Surfman Charles Seaman who earned it for "signal
heroism" when he responded to the wreck of the schooner George
Taulane on 3 February 1880. As a member of the crew of
station No. 12, District 4 (in New Jersey), Seaman, his fellow crew
members, the crew from Station No. 11, and some volunteer fishermen
rescued the crew of the burning lumber schooner during a snowstorm.
The silver life-saving medal on the right was used between 1874 and
1882. This particular example is a blank.
- Life
saving medal given to the volunteers who rescued the 32 people on
the Steamer Metis when it ran into trouble off Long Island at
Watch Hill, Rhode Island, on August 31, 1872.
- Distinguished
Flying Cross awarded posthumously to LT John Pritchard, USCG.
The Coast Guard awarded the DFC to LT Pritchard for his attempted rescue
of an Army Air Force B-17 which had crashed on the icecap on the west
side of Greenland, 28 November 1942. The first day, Pritchard and
Radioman First Class Benjamin Bottoms rescued two injured crewmen and
returned them to his cutter, the USCGC Northland. The
second day their aircraft disappeared in a storm.
Models:
Movie, Recruiting
& Propaganda Posters:
- Don
Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943): Through thirteen episodes Don
Winslow battles the German accented Scorpion, ally of the Japanese in
their plans to invade the West Coast of the United States. Based
on the newspaper feature "Don Winslow of the Navy," these
"shorts" played between feature films at movie theatres during
World War II.
Paintings &
Etchings:
World War II Art:
- "Landing Craft" painting by Jacob A. Lawrence
(right)
- "Dawn,"
oil on canvas by BMC William Goadby Lawrence, Coast Guard Artist.
Portraits:
- Portrait
of Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas copy of portrait by Copley.
Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury and the
"father" of the Coast Guard.
- Portrait
of Revenue Marine Captain Frederick Lee, commanding the cutter Eagle
during the War of 1812. He was responsible for the safety of New
Haven Harbor, Connecticut, and Long Island Sound during the war.
HMS Dispatch captured the Eagle after a 24-hour
battle.
Cutters:
Lighthouses:
Swords, Uniforms
& Accoutrements:
- U.S.
Life-Saving Service Cap worn by Surfman A. A. Jacobs while stationed
at Life-Saving Station No. 19, Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts.
Jacobs served in both the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the Coast Guard.
Miscellaneous:
"The
Life-boat Game": A board game manufactured from 1899 to 1904 by Parker
Brothers