- The Coast Guard experiences a lapse in funding, and Coast Guard employees (Active Duty, Reserve, and Civilians) go without pay for 35 days.
- Continued engagement with the National Coast Guard Museum Association as an active participant in the Museum Exhibition Advisory Panel (MEAP).
- Procured and then donated to the Coast Guard collection, “Pay Roll for the Officers, Seamen & Others on Board the Revenue Cutter Surveyor from the 1st Day of April 1813.” You may recall Surveyor—of “Surveyor and Narcissus” fame from the lyrics of “Semper Paratus.” The reference is to the Surveyor’s surrender to a Royal Navy frigate. After the surrender the RN captain returned the RCS captain’s sword to him, saying, “Your gallant and desperate attempt to defend your vessel against more than double your number excited such admiration on the part of your opponents as I have seldom witnessed, and induced me to return you the sword you had so ably used, in testimony of mine.” This battle took place only three months after the payroll was dated, and the payroll includes the names of many involved in the fight.
- Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.
