- Announced Annual Awards:
- Large Unit History Award Winner: USCGC Chase.
- Small Unit History Award Winner: USCGC Monhegan.
- Best Book on History Awards:
- Russell Drumm, The Barque of Saviors: Eagle’s Passage from the Nazi Navy to the U. S. Coast Guard
- Robert Frump, Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death and Survival in the Merchant Marine.
- Best Book on Lighthouses/Aids to Navigation: Cheryl Anne Finnerty, Lighthouses of Boston Harbor, Past and Present.
- Heritage Awards:
- Wayne C. Wheeler for creating the U.S. Lighthouse Society,
- Sloan Wilson for his books on CG activities in WW II.
- Special Recognition Award:
- MCPO Vince Patton for his strong support of the Foundation during his tour as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard (MCPOCG).
- CWO4 Allen Mordica for his work as one of the founders of the Tidewater Maritime Living History Association. The Association improves public awareness of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service through living history demonstrations.
- Initiated efforts to improve public access to the Coast Guard Museum/NW, which has been dramatically restricted due to increased waterfront security.
- The Foundation, led by VADM H. B. Thorsen and RADM R. L. Johanson, sponsored a pylon at Kitty Hawk, NC, to commemorate a Century of Flight. This pylon is the only one to recognize one of our armed forces fully.
- Contributed to the dedication of the new Kings Point Station in honor of the only Coast Guardsman lost in the events of 9/11/01, LCDR Gilbert Granados, USCGR.
- Preserved the oral history of perhaps the oldest living Lighthouse Keeper mere weeks before his passing.
- Started accepting charge cards instead of only checks “written with a quill.”
- Began development of The Coast Guard coffee table book. As part of that effort, the Foundation initiated a photo contest to select photos for inclusion in the book. The following were winners:
- Coast Guard Chaplain at Ground Zero, PA3 Bill Barry, USCG.
- Cadets on Danmark -WWII, A.D. Young, Jr.
- Cadets in Eagle Rigging, Paulette B. Stewart
- HO4S Over NYC -1952. John Scozzafava
- Stork Nose-art on JRF-5-Ketchikan 1956, Kenneth M. Christian
- Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.
