A U.S. Coast Guard Cutter underway in the Atlantic Ocean. USCG personnel lined up with rifles on the deck of the vessel as a senior officer inspects them. Several men on the deck of the cutter. Personnel remove cover from a piece of equipment on the deck. Men prepare and rotate a deck gun.
A rescue operation by U.S. Coast Guard men using lifeboats and breeches buoys in the Atlantic Ocean. A boat approaches a Coast Guard cutter with men. A cargo ship in distress. A shot line to be fired to the doomed vessel. Coast guard men row lifeboats. Men from the freighter are brought in the life boats to a shore. Few men from the freighter are rescued with breeches buoys from the steamer. They are brought to the shore by the Coast Guard men.
A freighter in distress and the inspection of a boat by U.S. Coast Guard men in the Atlantic Ocean. A freighter drifts away from the shore. The freighter in turbulent waters. An officer watches from a Coast Guard Cutter. Another ship underway with steam emitting from it. Coast Guard men on the deck of the cutter. The men fire at a distant boat. Two men in a boat beside the Coast Guard cutter. One Coast Guard personnel gets down into the boat and inspects it for aliens, drugs and illegal importations. Coast Guard personnel fire a deck gun. Other personnel look on.
A U.S. Coast Guard Ice Patrol ship in the Atlantic Ocean to reduce the dangers caused by icebergs. Men on the deck of the ice patrol ship. A large iceberg in the ocean water. Coast Guard personnel prepare a deck gun and fire at the iceberg. The iceberg is reduced in size. A small boat with men beside another large iceberg. The U.S. flag hoisted on the bow of the ice patrol ship.
U.S. Coast Guard activities at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and at sea. Three senior officers, two of them in uniform outside the United States Coast Guard Academy. Coast guard officers seated behind. Cadets march. The academy building in the background. A vessel in rough waters. A breeches buoy equipment on a coast guard cutter.
An shellback initiation ceremony aboard a United Stated Coast Guard liner in the Atlantic Ocean. Coast guard personnel on the deck of the ship. The sailors in trunks. The beginning of the initiation rites by experienced sailors. The sailors who are crossing the equator line the first time, go through the ceremony. One sailor is seated in a chair on a platform on the deck. Several sailors around the platform. Water is splashed on the sailors with a hose. A sailor dressed as a woman. The sailor is toppled into a pool of water by two other sailors. Few sailors dressed in different costumes sit on the deck. A high ranking seamen, dressed as King Neptune accompanied by his wife Queen Amphitrite, and the Court officiates the initiation ceremony. The coast guards lined up. The sailors portraying King Neptune and Queen Amphitrite walk past them and go on to the platform. The pollywogs, sailors who are crossing the equator first time, are locked in pillories.