The March 2024 edition of US Naval Institute Proceedings has a review of Coast Guard issues and actions during 2023. It is available online as well as in print.
There is one line that might be misinterpreted.
Final Note
The service presented two posthumous purple hearts in March. Captain Michael Kahle, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, presented the awards to the families of James Frost and Angus Nelson MacLean. Both were lost in the sinking of the cutter Tampa during World War I—the service's single largest loss of life. (emphasis applied--Chuck) The Tampa was sunk by a German U-boat while on convoy duty in the Bristol Channel, with the loss of 111 Coast Guard members and four Navy sailors.
The loss of the Tampa was in fact the largest US naval loss (Navy or Coast Guard) in combat during WWI, taking the lives of 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy sailors, and 16 British sailors and dockworkers, but was not the largest loss the Coast Guard ever experienced, that would be the Loss of USS Serpens (AK-97), Jan. 29, 1945 that resulted in the loss of 196 Coast Guardsmen plus 57 Army stevedores.
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