USRC Harriet Lane, fired the first naval shot of the Civil War
USRC Miami, carried President Abraham Lincoln and his party to Fort Monroe in May 1862, preparatory to the Peninsular Campaign.
USRC Hudson In the action off Cardenas on 11 May 1898, the cutter Hudson, Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb commanding, sustained the fight against Spanish gunboats and shore batteries side by side with the torpedo boat U.S.S. Winslow. When half of Winslow’s crew had been killed and its commander wounded, Hudson rescued the torpedo boat from certain destruction. In recognition of this act of heroism, Congress authorized a gold medal for Lieutenant Newcomb, a silver medal for each of the officers, and a bronze medal for the enlisted members of the crew.
USCGC NORTHLAND:On 12 September, the cutter Northland,operating in Greenland, took into "protective custody" the Norwegian trawler Boskoe and captured three German radiomen ashore. Boskoe was the United States’ first captured vessel of World War II.
Higgins boat, either the LCP or LCVP. USCG Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro was in charge of a group of LCP's abd LCT's that rescued some of Chesty Puller's Marines at Guadalcanal. Munro is the only Coastie to receive the Medal of Honor - see http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/Munro%20Index.html .
Others are listed at the USCG Historians site, under [url][http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_CGatwar.html/url]