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Semper Paratus is the title of the song and is also the U.S. Coast Guard's official motto.The precise origin of the phrase is obscure, although the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office notes the first use was by the New Orleans Bee newspaper in 1836, in reference to the actions of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service during the Ingham incident.
"Semper Paratus" is also the motto of Galt Collegiate Institute (GCI) in Cambridge, Ontario, the first high school in Canada to become a Collegiate Institute (established 1852). Semper Paratus is the motto of the Essex and Kent Scottish of the Canadian Army formed in 1954 through the amalgamation of The Essex Scottish Regiment and The Kent ...
United States Coast Guard - Latin: Semper Paratus, lit. 'Always Ready' (The Latin motto is also the name of the USCG service song, 'Semper Paratus' composed in 1927) Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT) - ‘Nox Noctis est Nostr’ (The Night is Ours) Office of Search and Rescue - ‘So Others May Live’
United States Coast Guard (USCG): Semper Paratus (Always ready) United States Coast Guard Life-Saving Service (USCG LSS): You have to go out, but you don't have to come back [3] United States Marine Corps (USMC): Semper Fidelis (Always faithful) United States Military Academy: Duty, Honor, Country; US Air Force Pararescue: That Others May Live
semper fortis: always brave: Unofficial motto of the United States Navy: semper idem: always the same: Motto of Underberg: semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat: We're always in the manure; only the depth varies. Lord de Ramsey, House of Lords, 21 January 1998 [7] semper instans: always threatening: Motto of 846 NAS Royal Navy: semper ...
Now that he had lyrics and music, Van Boskerck was ready to publish "Semper Paratus". Later in 1927, he traveled to the East Coast and was named commandant of the Norfolk Division. While attending a dance held by the League of Coast Guard Women in Norfolk, he had the nine-piece orchestra play "Semper Paratus" in public for the first time. [3]
Inscribed in an arc above the eagle is "UNITED STATES COAST GUARD"; below the eagle is the Coast Guard motto, "SEMPER PARATUS" ("Always Ready") and beneath that in Arabic numerals is "1790" (the year in which the service's ancestor, the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, was founded). All inscriptions on the flag are in dark blue typeface.
The United States Revenue Cutter Ingham was one of the 13 Coast Guard cutters of the Morris-Taney class.Named for Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham, she was the first United States warship to engage a Mexican ship in combat; and for her service in that battle, a newspaper called her Semper Paratus (always ready), which later became the motto of the United States Coast Guard.