One well-traveled Boston Terrier, YN1 Spar, in USCG service, circa 1944. Original period caption: Spar, a two-year-old Boston Bull pooch, was born for the sea. She shipped out as a wee pup and has served the Coast Guard well as mascot on the Coast Guard Combat Cutter Spencer at the time is sank a German sub in battle on the North Atlantic. An adventurer who likes action at sea and in waterfront beverage emporiums, Spar once bailed out of a crippled airplane over Newfoundland in the arms of her master, Coast Guard Coxswain Harold L. Mottard, of Boston, Mass. Here, Spar wears her dress blues, complete with first-class yeoman rating, campaign ribbons (earned), and wings for the plane jump. She’s going ashore between voyages. National Archives Identifier 205583224, Local Identifier 26-G-08-22-44(1) Of note, the 327-foot Treasury (Hamilton) class cutter Spencer (WPG-36) had a very active WWII career, including the bona fide and well-documented sinking of the German Type IXC submarine U-175…
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