Isaac Mayo

Isaac Franklin Mayo (September 28, 1826 – April 6, 1912) was a junior surfman in the United States Life-Saving Service, one of the agencies later amalgamated into the United States Coast Guard in 1915.

Mayo was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts on September 28, 1826. As a Cape Cod mariner, he became a volunteer for the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the precursors of the United States Life-Saving Service. On January 5, 1856, he was leader and coxswain of a five-man surfboat crew which rescued five survivors from the grounded schooner Clarendon. The Humane Society awarded Silver Medals to Mayo and his crew for their bravery. As the captain of the rescue boat, Mayo was also awarded what the Humane Society called a "Diploma."

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USCGC Isaac Mayo

In 2010, when the Coast Guard decided that all the new Sentinel class cutters would be named after Coast Guard personnel who had been recognized for their heroism, Mayo was one of those to be honored. The twelfth cutter in the class, named the USCGC Isaac Mayo, was commissioned on March 28, 2015.