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United States Life-Saving Service. 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.
Joshua James (November 22, 1826 – March 19, 1902) was an American sea captain and a U.S. Life–Saving Station keeper. He was a famous and celebrated commander of civilian life-saving crews in the 19th century, credited with saving over 500 lives from the age of about 15 when he first associated himself with the Massachusetts Humane Society until his death at the age of 75 while on duty with ...
Died. July 9, 1904 (1904-07-09) (aged 77) Resting place. Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation. Owner of the Coston Signal Company. Martha Jane Coston (December 12, 1826 – July 9, 1904) was an American inventor and businesswoman who invented the Coston flare, a device for signaling at sea, and the owner of the ...
Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the country to have an all-black crew, and it was the first in the nation to have a black man, Richard Etheridge, as commanding officer. [1] On August 3, 2012, the second of the Coast Guard's 154 ...
The boathouse is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its ground floor functions as a boat dock, designed to house a 36-foot (11 m) motor boat (the standard rescue boat of the service at the time) and a surfboat. The upper floor provided living quarters for the station crew.
The complex was constructed as a life-saving station. It is the only remaining station which was in use during all three periods of lifesaving service history, [3] from the early volunteer period through operation by the United States Life-Saving Service and the United States Coast Guard. [4] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1998 ...
August 18, 1975. The Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station is a historic maritime rescue station and museum, located at Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Built in 1897, it was originally located at Nauset Beach near the entrance to Chatham Harbor in Chatham, Massachusetts. It was used by the United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS ...
John Thomas Daniels Jr. (July 31, 1873 – January 31, 1948) was a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Station in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, who took the photograph of the first powered flight on December 17, 1903. [1] The flight was by the Wright brothers flying their Wright Flyer. Daniels, who had never seen a camera before, later said that ...