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The United States Life-Saving Service[1] was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers. It began in 1848 and ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915.
List of United States Coast Guard stations. Coast Guard Station Tom's River, pictured as a life saving station. It was operational from 1872 to around 1964. This article contains a list of United States Coast Guard stations in the United States within the United States Coast Guard 's nine districts. There are currently many stations located ...
A life-saving station was established in Golden Gate Park on June 20, 1877, which later became the first of five life-saving stations in the Twelfth District of the United States Life-Saving Service. The Golden Gate Park station was later supplemented by stations at Fort Point, Point Reyes, Point Bonita, and Ocean Beach.
October 30, 1979. The Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station was originally built in November 1878 on the north side of the entrance to Humboldt Bay in northern California, United States, near Eureka, adjacent to the site of the first Humboldt Harbor Light (1856–1892). Rebuilt in 1936 with marine railways to launch rescue surfboats, the historic ...
December 20, 1989 [2] Point Reyes Lifeboat Station, also known as Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station, is a historic coastal rescue station, located on the Drake's Bay side of Point Reyes in northern California, United States. It was built in 1927 by the United States Lifesaving Service to replace a previous station dating from 1888.
The history of the United States Coast Guard goes back to the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the Department of the Treasury. The Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service were merged to become the Coast Guard per 14 U.S.C. § 1 which states: "The Coast Guard as ...
Training Center Petaluma is a Coast Guard training facility in the northern California counties of Sonoma and Marin. Formerly the installation was the United States Army "Two Rock Station" . [1] Approximately 4,000 military students train there each year. [1] It is the only Coast Guard training center or large installation without a major ...
Surfman insignia used by United States Coast Guard, consisting of a pewter-toned life buoy crossed by two oars. Surfman Howard Daniel Browning of Station Narrangansett Pier in winter uniform, c. 1909. Surfmen was the terminology used to describe members of the United States Lifesaving Service.