Classic Harbor Line hosted a livestream in June, 2024 that included interviews with veteran Guy Clark and Elizabeth Midgett, widow of CO Jack Midgett

Fireman Logan Bordner remembers working in the boiler room in 1959

Travel to St. George, Staten Island and to the C & D Canal with Executive Officer Guy Clark on board Lilac

Lilac’s chain of command was featured in The Bulletin of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Assn

Howard Anton Jensen received the Coast Guard Medal for giving his life to save a shipmate’s

Buoy Tender Day 2017 reunited veterans Tom Pawlak and Mike Rankin for a tour down memory lane

Thomas Cannuli returned to his ship in a surprise visit

Owen Davis remembers serving as LILAC’s cook during WWII

One of Steve Vani’s memories is that “We ate good!”

Tom Knotts and Mike Rankin remember their days on board

A home movie by Jim Fetters shows what it was like to tend a buoy in 1969

Jim Mooney let the boiler go cold but was saved by his African-American shipmate

Thanks to CWO E. Frank “Willy” Williams, we have original film of LILAC’s decommissioning