U.S. Coast Guard Academy history

Captain John Henriques served as superintendent from founding until 1883.

The academy nickname is the Bears, after the USRC Bear, which made a dramatic rescue in Alaska in 1897, shortly after the opening of the academy.

The Coast Guard Academy was a shipboard operation until 1900 when the first land-based campus was established in Curtis Bay, Maryland.

Information Relative to Appointments to Cadetships in the Line of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, 1909.

Hills, Charles D. Information Relative to Appointments to Cadetships in the Line of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, 1910.

Information Relative to Appointments to Cadetships in the Line of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, 1913.

Educational institutions established in 1915

Construction proceeded relatively on schedule and cadets moved in to the new buildings on 20 September 1932.

________.________. Appointment of Coast Guard Academy Graduates in 1945 and thereafter as Ensigns in Coast Guard.

In 1946, the academy received the barque Horst Wessel as a war reparation from Germany, a 295-foot tall ship which was renamed USCGC Eagle.

In 1947, the academy received, as a war reparation from Germany, the barque Horst Wessel, a 295-foot tall ship which was renamed the USCGC Eagle.

Washington: Public Information Division, United States Coast Guard Headquarters, 1951.

Thirty six women joined the Corps of Cadets for the first time, the result of congressional legislation passed in October 1975 at the Coast Guard’s request.

The academy began admitting women in 1976 at the request of Congress.

________. "The Ministry of Navy Chaplains at CGA." The Bulletin (May 1981), pp. [*****].

Kroll, C. Douglas. "The Coast Guard’s First Chapel." The Bulletin (Jul-Aug 1982), pp. [*****].

Also of note is the academy's Model UN team, which was started in 2004, and has since been successfully competing around North America, and at the World Model UN Conference.