Executive Order 8851—Transferring United States Coast Guard Ship Redwing From the United States Coast Guard to the United States Navy
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of January 28, 1915, 38 Stat. 800 (U.S.C., title 14, sec. 1), the United States Coast Guard Ship Redwing is hereby transferred from the service and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury to the service and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy, to operate as a part of the Navy and subject to the control thereof during the unlimited national emergency proclaimed by me on May 27, 1941.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
August 16, 1941.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8851—Transferring United States Coast Guard Ship Redwing From the United States Coast Guard to the United States Navy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372157