Bertholf's contributions to the U.S. Coast Guard include preventing the dissolution of the service in 1911; his guidance in the merger of the USRCS and the USLSS into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915; and in 1919, he was instrumental in successfully preventing a takeover by the U.S. Navy.

The U.S. Coast Guard has named the first cutter of the Legend-class maritime security cutters USCGC Bertholf in honor of their former commandant.
The cutter is the first ship to be constructed as part of the Coast Guard's Deepwater program and was launched in 2006.
Bertholf was commissioned on Coast Guard Day, 4 August 2008, and is currently homeported in Alameda, California.


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Bertholf's contributions to the U.S. Coast Guard include preventing the dissolution of the service in 1911; his guidance in the merger of the USRCS and the USLSS into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915; and in 1919, he was instrumental in successfully preventing a takeover by the U.S. Navy.
The U.S. Coast Guard has named the first cutter of the Legend-class maritime security cutters USCGC Bertholf in honor of their former commandant. The cutter is the first ship to be constructed as part of the Coast Guard's Deepwater program and was launched in 2006. Bertholf was commissioned on Coast Guard Day, 4 August 2008, and is currently homeported in Alameda, California.

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Ellsworth P. Bertholf