- Announced Annual Awards:
- Large Unit History Award Winner: Coast Guard Yard.
- Small Unit History Award Winner: International Ice Patrol.
- Best Book on History: Eric S. Ensign, Intelligence in the Rum War at Sea 1920-1933.
- Best Book on Lighthouses/Aids to Navigation: T. Lindsay Baker, Lighthouses of Texas.
- Heritage Awards:
- Paul H. Johnson, Academy Librarian, who established the first Coast Guard Museum there.
- Captain David H. Webb, USCG, Retired, the first volunteer Curator at the Coast Guard Museum/NW, who spent over 25 years volunteering as much as 5 days each week.
- William D. Wilkinson, Director of the Mariners Museum in Newport News, who created exhibits depicting the unique humanitarian role of the USCG.
- Special Recognition Award:
- Columbia River Maritime Museum, Station Tillamook Bay, OR and Instructors at the National Motor Lifeboat School, Ilwaco, WA, for jointly creating a display that can only be described as AWESOME!
- Non-profit status: After working for 3 years under the auspices of the Coast Guard Museum/NW, the I.R.S. granted the Foundation for Coast Guard History (FCGH) non-profit status.
- Initiated website: fcgh.org
- Provided funding for the visual/oral history of RADM Peter V. Colmar.
- At the persistent urging of the Foundation, Coast Guard Headquarters authorized three additional budgeted billets, bringing the total to 9 billets in the History Program. Many more are needed.
