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The Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum honors and preserves the history of Virginia's maritime heritage, coastal communities, the United States Lifesaving Service, and the United States Coast Guard along the Atlantic coast.
It was the site of the 19th century Dam Neck Mills Lifesaving Station of the United States Lifesaving Service, one of five spaced at intervals along the coast in Virginia from Cape Henry south to the border of North Carolina. The U.S. Lifesaving Service merged with other agencies to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915.
Tom Gill, chief of the Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service, told The Virginian-Pilot that the city's more than 180 rescues were high even for a holiday weekend. Virginia Beach lifeguards had been ...
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.
On most days, small waves gently lap over the shore of the Chesapeake Bay beaches in Virginia Beach. Families with young children play at the water’s edge or stand a few yards out on a sandbar.
The station at Seatack (built in 1903 to replace an earlier structure) is now a museum at 24th street adjacent to the boardwalk of Virginia Beach. The area's lifesaving history along the coast line of the Graveyard of the Atlantic is commemorated at the Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum which has artefacts from the shipwreck of the Dictator ...
Life-Saving Station? Life-Saving Station number Life-Saving Station district Coast Guard Station number Reference Coast Guard Station Hampton Beach: Hampton Beach: 1898 1969 Yes Unknown 1st 16 [24] Coast Guard Station Isle of Shoals: Appledore Island: 1910 1954 No N/A N/A 14 [25] Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor: New Castle: unknown active ...
Bailey Taylor Barco (February 14, 1846 - November 4, 1901) was a stationkeeper and Captain with the United States Life-Saving Service—one of the agencies later merged into the United States Coast Guard. He led a rescue at his station Dam Neck Mills in present-day Virginia Beach, on December 21, 1900. [1]