Today in Coast Guard history 1 November. 1843-Secretary of Treasury Spencer issued new Rules and Regulations for the governing of the Revenue Cutter Service that centralized control of personnel, promotion and discipline issues under the Revenue Marine Bureau, but left direct superintendence and direction of the individual cutters with the local Collectors of Customs. 1848-The Revenue cutter C. W. Lawrence weighed anchor off Washington, D.C. and set sail down the Potomac River. The cutter was commanded by Captain Alexander V. Fraser, the first chief of Revenue Marine Bureau, who left that position to take command of the new brig-rigged cutter. He was ordered to proceed on an epic voyage around Cape Horn via the Hawaiian Islands to San Francisco where the cutter arrived safely on 31 October the following year. 1903-The first wireless message was received on board a Revenue cutter. On this date in 1903 USRC Grant received a message transmitted by a shore station installed in the U.S. Customs building at Port Townsend, WA. The experimental use of a wireless set to coordinate the movements of a cutter at sea with shore-based stations proved to be a success and led to the wide-spread use of radio by all cutters. The equipment used ashore and on board Grant was installed by the Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company. 1941-President Franklin D. Roosevelts Executive Order 8929 transferred the Coast Guard to the Navy Department. 1943-The invasion of Bougainville, Solomon Islands, commenced. Coast Guard units participated in the landings. 1949-The authority to reestablish the Women’s Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve (SPARS), approved by the President on 4 August 1949, became effective. 1984- The largest marijuana bust to date in West Coast history took place when CGC Clover seized the 63-foot yacht Arrikis 150 miles southwest of San Diego. The yacht was loaded with 13 tons of marijuana.
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