5 Reasons You Should Buy Best Cutters of The Best Coast Guard!

My long-awaited book of heroic and hilarious stories about the Coast Guard’s greatest ships is finally here! These are the biggest reasons you need to grab a copy.


In the First World War, six Coast Guard cutters went to war in Europe. Their mission: take convoys all alone on the treacherous, 1,500-mile route from Gibraltar to Wales, evading German submarines all the way. They were given one rule: if a ship in your convoy is sunk, don’t stop to help, it will only make you the next target. But try telling a Coast Guard cutter to leave someone behind.


This is the story of the cutter that didn’t listen.



In April 1861, a Revenue Cutter sailed with a fleet of Navy ships on a desperate mission: resupply besieged Fort Sumpter so it wouldn’t surrender to the South. On the way, though, a storm blew the rest of her convoy off course, leaving her to arrive alone outside Charleston Harbor at around midnight. Picket ships spotted her and sent up flares; rumors spread in town that the North had come. Just after 4AM, she witnessed the opening salvos of a bloody conflict: one she’d be on the front lines of.


When a Navy torpedo boat sailed into a trap during the Spanish-American War, it fell to a plucky Revenue Cutter to sail through enemy fire and pull her to safety. She wasn’t built as a warship, but thankfully for the Navy, she proved she was something even better: a tugboat.


After the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, one Coast Guard patrol boat raced to the rescue. Over the next 12 hours, she led the evacuation of over 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan by creating a volunteer fleet of military, merchant, city, and private vessels.

But that was only the start. The whole world was about to change, and her world along with it.


A century ago, one Coast Guard cutter was so famous that people around the world knew her on sight. She saved lives in the tens of thousands, sailed into waters no ship had ever seen, and was the oldest American vessel to serve overseas in World War II. But after the war, the Navy auctioned her off for less than the price of her scrap, and we lost a piece of our history forever.


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