Editing Coast guard (section)

===United States===
In the United States, the [[United States Coast Guard]] was created in 1915 by the merger of two other federal agencies. The first, the [[United States Revenue Cutter Service]], founded in 1790 and known until 1894 as the United States Revenue-Marine, was a maritime customs enforcement agency that also assumed a supporting role to the [[United States Navy]] in wartime. The second, the [[United States Life-Saving Service]], was formed in 1848 and consisted of life saving crews stationed at points along the [[United States East Coast]]. The Coast Guard later absorbed the [[United States Lighthouse Service]] in 1939 and the functions of the [[Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection]] via a two-step process in 1942 and 1946.