Galleries

Graduates of a Auxiliary Safe Boating class, ca. 1961.

This photograph, which was taken 8 August 1961, is of the Charter members of Flotilla 2 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which at the time was in District 2, Division 14.  District 2 later became District 8WR, and Division 14 became Division 33.  Notice that the Auxiliarists in the photo are wearing Khaki uniforms.  Khaki was the original color of the Auxiliary uniform until 1975, when the Auxiliary switched to the "Bender Blue" uniform.

Members of all-female Flotilla 88, Point Pleasant, N.J., manning CME station during National Safe Boating Week, Navigator, September 1962.  History program, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Application to start a new flotilla, Flotilla 19, in Division 1 of District 11 Northern in 1962.  Flotilla 11N-1-19.

Public official signing a National Safe Boating Week proclamation, ca.1962.  History program, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Auxiliarists rescue boater off an outboard that had foundered during storm 1967, Long Island Sound, New York.  History program, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Boating safety center jointly operated by the Auxiliary and U.S. Power Squadron, Coast Guard Base Terminal Island, California, 1968.  History program, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.